New Media, Popular Culture, and American Politics 2008

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Channel: University of Oregon · 2010 · Education

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Talking Snowmen, Moose Stew, and the 3 a.m. Girl: New Media, Popular Culture, and American Politics 2008

Henry Jenkins, Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide offers a report card on the role of media (new and old) in what appears to be one of the most transformative elections since the 1960 Nixon/Kennedy race demonstrated television's increased centrality to American politics.

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