National Survey into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans (PICC, 2006) http://www.saccd.org.za/objects/sabdc_reading.pdf
Rin, 21, wrote a mobile phone novel, with 400,000 hardcover sales. Photo: The New York Times http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/mobile-phone-novels-ring-up-big-sales-but-critics-fear-forjapanese-literature/2008/01/22/1200764265347.html
In the paper referenced in the slide, as well as in Jenkins' book Convergence Culture he presents the idea of a participatory culture, where people want to create and share information, and not just passively consume it. Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A. J., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Retrieved October 31, 2007, from http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF Image of Henry Jenkins by Joi Ito: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2258124778/sizes/l/ . CC-By-2.0 Pew study from 2005: one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. That figure is now much higher. The United States is a PC-based web society, so the experience is in rich multimedia