While I do agree with some of the points made throughout the book I think he was far too focused on pop culture and less on media convergence. In almost every chapter the author got far too caught up with the story of what he was talking about or with the specific media and less focused on the larger picture of what that media did for the whole. The book could have been condensed to about forty pages if he had stuck to the important issues. As pointed out in class, he also needed to get off fan stuff. I'm fairly certain that the fan sites and such that he talked about are such a small minority that it doesn't affect the majority of people in any way.
Aside from that he made some good points about where social media is at. He didn't look into the future much but he did a good job of defining now.
But overall I found the book very mundane and uninformative for what it was supposed to be talking about.
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