Hidden Intellectualism

Quoting and Paraphrasing Common sense seems to dictate that humans should stick with what they know. This seemingly includes that education and media should stay the same. The popular saying, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it” demonstrates this. However, our society demands open-mindedness to revolutionize education and media to institute a more involved level from the public.
In the essay, Hidden Intellectualism, written by Gerald Graff, he supports the argument of education becoming more open minded when he says, “The challenge, as college professor Ned Laff has put it, ‘is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes’” (Graff 385). Graff is simply stating that sticking
This changing media is discussed within the paper Copy and Paste Literacy. In it, the author, Dan Perkel proposes that, “deviating from de Certeau, Jenkins reveals how various fan groups produce tangible artifacts, such as fan fiction and “transform the experience of media consumption into the production of new texts, indeed of a new culture and new community.”...Ito (forthcoming) builds on these arguments and debate concerning active and passive media audiences and argues that “new convergent media…require a reconfigured conceptual apparatus that takes productive and creative activity at the ‘consumer’ level as a given rather than as an addendum or an exception”” (Perkel 11). A new, evolved, type of media is being examined, an example of which is fan-fiction. There are works, in the form of stories and movies, that different people become fans of. They then create new stories called fan-fiction that are based off of or come from ideas they received when viewing the original work. In this way, media is becoming more participation based instead of consumption based. The general public isn’t just consuming media, they are participating in and creating it, hence the label “new”