Convergence Culture Chapter 3

"The Film need not be well made, but it must provide resources consumers can use in constructing their own fantasies: "In order to transform a work in to a cult object one must be able to break, dislocate, unhinge it so that one can remember only parts of it, irrespective of their original relationship to the whole." "...the cult film need not be coherent: the more different directions it pushes, the more different communities it can sustain, and the more different experiences it can provide, the better..." (Jenkins, p 100)

This is how I want my school year to be for my students. I realize that they may not be able to regurgitate every ounce of intellectual nuances I espouse, however, if they can take bits and pieces and in retrospect take the foundations and principles that I attempted to establish and create value of their own, I would have done my job. I want my lessons to be able to touch all learners and evoke experiences on their individual levels to embed a more meaningful impact.

I didn't know what to call it until now, but I was apart of the "knowledge communities" caught up into The Matrix. I remember looking at forums and fan based chats and websites that focused on different aspects of the movie that were most significant to the group. I myself were caught up in the fight/action scenes, like the video above, but I notice how these scenes influenced the pop dance culture and "moves" were developed based on the action sequences in the movie.



If I can use what my student are caught up and and research the "knowledge base communities" and use the same marketing ploys used by these major organization and adapt it to my classroom, I think the world of education would change dramatically. Wow! I'm loving this class.