In this episode I unpack Jenkins et al.’s (2009) publication titled “Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century,” which summarizes the three challenges in media literacy education and provides several core media literacy skills that can address these challenges.

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00:00 Intro

00:41 What is participatory culture?

03:24 What are the benefits/challenges of participatory culture?

06:26 FIve characteristics of participatory culture

10:12 Affinity spaces

13:49 Three core challenges/problems

19:37 What should we teach? Rethinking literacy

25:00 Play

28:30 Simulation

29:46 Performance

30:44 Appropriation

34:03 Multitasking

35:41 Distributed cognition

37:18 Collective intelligence

40:29 Judgment

41:23 Transmedia navigation

42:51 Networking

44:28 Negotiation

45:50 Who should respond?

47:43 Lingering questions and thoughts

47:52 How can we apply the core media literacy skills in the classroom?

49:46 Outro