Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom

by Henry Jenkins and Wyn Kelley

Book Overview

Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other. Reading in a Participatory Culture tells the story of an innovative experiment that brought together playwright and director Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Melville scholar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807754013
• ISBN13: 9780807754016
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"