Participant Potatoes

On the Media | May 5, 2011
Watching TV used to be a purely passive experience. But these days, viewers are sitting up, voting, playing along, and in many cases taking control of the script. In Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, MIT professor Henry Jenkins examines the new media landscape from the point of view of advertisers, networks, and audience members. He converges with Bob to discuss.

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