Why Heather Can Write - Jenkins

Jenkins explores the connection between media literacy and Harry Potter in his piece "Why Heather can write." He delves into the media convergence; the combining of old and new media technologies. He also explores an issue of fictional writing, in this case the Harry Potter series, and fans utilizing technology. The series of novels that broke records for the greatest number of books sold on a first weekend after publication had quite the fan base. These fans caused a series of trouble however, when fictional writing met digital technology. Fans began to write "fan fiction" blogs, taking Harry Potter JK Rowling's wildly popular books and writing their own spin offs. They then published their spin offs all over the internet and created new characters to the book. Unfortunately, this ended in copyright infringement accusals and deletion of fan fiction blogs. Media convergence is a part of our daily society with the integration of media technology. Just as old photographs and articles become digitalized, old careers are replaced with new IT and media based careers. I too will one day replace businessman that are foreign to social media and all things technology.

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