Interview with Henry Jenkins (Part Two)

September 23, 2009 on 7:25 pm | In News |

Jenkins sets up the second installment of my interview with him about The Young and the Digital with the following observation:

From the moment I read his manuscript, I knew that his chapter, “Digital Gates: How Race and Class Distinctions Are Shaping the Digital World” would be the one which generated a lot of the heat and the controversy here. Those of us who see the web as key to our vision of a more participatory culture have to be concerned with the obstacles which block many from full involvement…Watkins joins a growing number of writers who are asking in what ways our social networks online replicate — for better and for worse — our friendship networks offline, networks we know are shaped by continued segregation.

You can read the full interview here.