Journal # 8 Collaboration

Collaboration is an important, yet overlooked, part of everyday. Collaboration can be defined as a cluster of ideas combined to form a final product. I think collaboration whether in texts, movies, etc. is very common today. The reading by Jenkins on "Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars", describes the contrasting views of the Harry Potter series, but also demonstrates some of the readers collaboration of the text. The Harry Potter series alone, is a collaboration. The movie collaborates the book, and so on and so fourth. What I found particularly interesting in this article, was how Heather was able to incorporate teens to help put together "The Daily Prophet". Being able to collaborate with others, Heather was able to have a more successful product. In everyday text, we see many things that are collaborated. Movies, books, etc. Even things like scrapbooks, an everyday text we talked about in class, can be argued to be a collaboration. A scrapbook requires the person making it, to acquire memorabilia... Possibly from other people. Making it a collaborated text. Things like mixed tapes can be seen as everyday, and those are also collaborated. A tattoo might be thought of by a specific person, then shown to a tattoo artist, and a friend, and then more opinions and ideas are brought about the tattoo and then the tattoo is put on the person as an overall collaboration. Overall the majority of everyday texts we use are collaborated.