Digital Literacies Final Project.pdf Apr. 2014 | Page 8

Findings Participatory Culture ! Jenkins (2006) ! ! ! ! ! While observing this online music course community, I found participatory culture was the most salient theory which I could connect this community with. This was the second time that Curtis Music Institute held this course on Coursera. There were more than 35,000 people taking this course last fall; and there were another 16,000 students enrolled in this course this spring. It was indeed an online course that embrace people from different 7 countries, professions, and ages to participate in this community. Nevertheless, it is not simply that many people of different backgrounds participated in this course makes it conform to Jenkins’ concept of participatory culture. This music course on Coursera aligns with every entry of the definition of participatory culture (Jenkins, 2006).