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    The document discusses how knowledge communities and new media are rapidly growing in today's society. It provides examples of participatory websites like Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo Movies that allow people to share information about movies. New media and convergence of information across multiple devices have enabled knowledge communities to connect people and share information more easily. As new technologies continue to develop, knowledge communities will thrive and society will become more advanced.

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    And Their Rapid Growth in Todays Society

    Presented by Kristin Keeker

    A community or group of people who can share and receive information on a particular topic.

    A group designed solely to share information and knowledge on films.

    HTTP://WWW.ROTTENTOMATOES.COM/

    HTTP://MOVIES.YAHOO.COM/

    A website designed to share information about movies, DVDs', celebrities, news and critics. The website offers information on the top movies in the Box Office and top rentals for DVDs. Opening Day movie dates Current news on movies and celebrities Movie trailers and links to missing scenes, etc Options to converge the website with your Face Book account A Blog to share and receive information on movies, celebrities, etc (listed under a link titled
    Community)

    Also has a link to Movie Quotes

    Top Contributors This Month | All Time Lucas M 111 Contributions Latest Contribution (Quote for Watchmen): Rorschach/Walter Kovacs: None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. Javis C 79 Contributions Latest Contribution (Quote for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith): General Grievous (Voice): (To Obi-Wan Kenobi) Ah yes! The negotiator General Kenobi. Christopher H 40 Contributions Latest Contribution (Quote for Akira): Kei (Japanese Version): What if there wee some mistake and the progression went wrong and someting like an amoeba wre given power like a human's? Kaneda (Japanese Version): Akira is an amoeba? Kei (Japanese Version): Amoebas don't build there own houses and brigdes do they? They just devour all the food around them. Jake C 33 Contributions Latest Contribution (Quote for A Clockwork Orange): Alex: A little of the old ultra-violence. DO YOU GET ME?

    An interactive website designed for movies Offers information on latest movies in theaters, show times and tickets, coming soon, DVDs, news, Emmys, Box Office and Blogs. Able to converge with Face Book and share the website. Allows purchasing tickets on the website A section titled My Movies that allows a personal profile of your favorite movies, your critics of movies, personal rating of movies, lists of movies, etc. A Blog to share and receive information

    'Gainsbourg' (Photo: Music Box Films) It's hard to find an equivalent to French singer/songwriter/provocateur Serge Gainsbourg in American society -- he's part Bob Dylan, part Dean Martin, and part Johnny Rotten. He managed to get a teen pop star to sing a double-entendre-laden song about lollipops; he got a pair of international movie stars to orgasmically moan for two versions of the song "Je t'aime moi non plus"; and sang a duet with his daughter about incest. And yet when he died in 1991, President Francois Mitterrand described Gainsbourg as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." The French recall his passing of a heart attack in the same way Americans might recall Kurt Cobain's or John Lennon's; it was a moment of national mourning. Twenty years later, Serge Gainsbourg seems to be going through something of a renaissance. He had a tribute show at the Hollywood Bowl last month, featuring the likes of Beck and Sean Lennon. A documentary called "Gainsbourg and His Girls" -which centers around Gainsbourg, who was more charismatic than handsome, and his numerous gorgeous lovers, including Brigitte Bardot -- is making the rounds on the film festival circuit. And, now, Joann Sfar's surreal biopic, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life," hits the silver screen in the States.

    Even though Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo Movies are websites based on Film Entertainment only, they are participatory websites. The websites offer access to anyone and everyone to share information concerning reviews, celebrities, news, etc. in the form of Blogging. A Knowledge Community is a group of people sharing information about something they are knowledgeable in or enjoy, Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo Movies fulfill this definition.

    New Media and Convergence - New Media allows people, corporations, etc to share information, music, entertainment and to socialize through modern technology. -Convergence is the flow of information (media) across multiple devices of technology.

    Knowledge Communities are rapidly growing and are able to do so because New Media gives them the access. Along with Convergence people are able to stay connected basically to the rest of the world at all times. Once it was newspapers and magazines, then radio, on to TV, and now it is cell phones, internet access, satellite. While watching TV, advertisement and websites pop up at the bottom of the screen. The same goes with the internet. Constantly there are messages of Media everywhere. Unless social class prohibits an individual from having such things, most everyone is a click away from useful and useless information.

    New Media helps Knowledge Communities to thrive. The technology world is growing at a rapid speed. There are individuals with even better ideas for technology that have not been recorded yet. As long as people keep thinking and learning the more advance society becomes and allowing Knowledge Communities to continue to be a popular source.

    Here is a brief video to show the changes in New Media and the direction our society is heading towards.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4pDahuxHQ

    Below is a link to Henry Jenkins and Yochai Benkler discussing New Media and how perceptions of ourselves are changing.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch3nTNDxWnY

    Henry Jenkins Convergence Culture Where Old and


    New Media Collide

    Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Yahoo Movies http://movies.yahoo.com/ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4pDah uxHQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch3nTN DxWnY

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