Collaboration

I decided to go back and talk about chapter five some more. In Jenkins book of Convergence Culture, in chapter five, he talks about the harry potter wars and how children get together collaborate to form new ideas and thoughts on the issue. There are many sites that are related to this site, in that they are set up with similar structure and purposes. Just as we were previously talking in class on the previous chapters, the spoiler websites are related to this in some way. They both are where people come together to collaborate their ideas and form new conclusions and ideas from what they can piece together. In The Daily Prophet, the children learned how to write and played with their fantasies while they did it, but on the other sites such as the spoiler sites they are looking for the conclusion to a show or question. Today we were talking about sites that are set up to talk and ask questions on a certain subject that are very helpful when we are lost on that topic. The collaboration within these sites is impressive and interesting to see how they form a conclusion or new idea from what is said. Here is a link to a website that then takes you to further wbsites where you can talk with others on a certain issue or topic. It is interesting to see how many different sites there really are and how many people really get involved with it.