Henry Jenkins
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Henry Jenkins...of the Senior House dorm at MIT before their relocation to southern California in July 2009. They have one son, Henry Jenkins IV. One of Jenkins' earlier arguments was that the boundary between text and reader has broken down, not merely... In this article: Henry Jenkins III, MIT, USC Annenberg School For Communication, Game Informer, Electronic Gaming Monthly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Iowa, and Georgia State University |
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all about jazz | October 18, 2009
WEB/TECH: Minds for the Future: Why Digital Immersion Matters
...they must understand the role" it plays in their lives too. 2. Creative Destruction From the perspective of media scholar Henry Jenkins, Educators must work together to ensure that every American young person has access to the skills and...
In this article: Capitalism, Beneficiary, Nassim Taleb, Twitter, and Facebook
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VentureBeat | October 07, 2009
Interview with Will Wright on his entertainment startup, the Stupid Fun Club
...community around The Lost show on TV is one of my favorites. It's awe inspiring. VB: That makes me think about (MIT professor) Henry Jenkins' book on "transmedia," (content that crosses media boundaries) which he called Convergence...
In this article: Will Wright, Maxis, Spore, Jordan Weisman, Twitter, Electronic Arts, Smith & Tinker, and San Jose Mercury News
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Boing Boing | September 22, 2009
Recently on Offworld: Elite turns 25, Left 4 Teletubbies, Indies Invade Austin
...LA's Oct. 1-4 Indiecade conference/exhibition, with appearances by Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, former MIT games head Henry Jenkins, and flOw/Flower creator Jenova Chen. Finally, we saw the horrific visage of the Teletubbies...
In this article: Katamari Damacy, Frontier, Xbox Live Arcade, MIT, Keita Takahashi, Jenova Chen, and UK
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Slate Magazine - Slate's main feed | May 18, 2009
How Obama is like Spock.
...Trek looks ahead to the society we live in today, where so many people are mixed race, mixed cultural background," Jenkins says. "And I've been thinking about that a lot lately, looking at Barack Obama. There's something in the [Obama]...
In this article: Barack Obama, Spock, Vulcan, Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court, John Roberts, and Plaintiff
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thestar.com | May 09, 2009
Meme of the week: Obama as Spock
In 2008, MIT's Henry Jenkins was asked to name a contemporary figure with the same qualities as Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "Before I quite knew what I was saying," he wrote, "I found myself talking about Barack Obama." The New York Times'...
In this article: Spock, Barack Obama, Recession, Star Trek, MIT, and Salon
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Henry Jenkins and Babylon 5's Straczynski live, MIT, May 22
Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 25, 2009 8:12 AM | permalink Media scholar Henry Jenkins and Babylon 5 creator Joe Straczynski are doing a double-header at MIT on May 22, and it's open to the public. Sounds like a hell of a way to spend an...
In this article: Babylon 5, Joe Straczynski, MIT, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Time Inc., Los Angeles Times, Cory Doctorow, Jeremiah, and Murder She Wrote
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Guardian Unlimited | March 16, 2009
@SxSWi: Henry Jenkins revolutionises the learning ecosystem
MIT Professor Henry Jenkins has long been an advocate of compute games. His support for the medium has been witnessed at the top of the political pile; Jenkins frequently testifies in front of the US Congress against game regulation and in...
In this article: MIT
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 03, 2008
Movement
...MIT, uses Frank Capra's classic film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to explain the dual reactions toward Obama. If you dislike him, Jenkins says, the fear is that he's the Huey Long figure who manipulates the emotions of the people and turns...
In this article: Barack Obama, Clinton, John Lewis, Dallas, and YouTube
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CNET News.com | January 29, 2008
MIT professor on social responsibility in China's gaming culture Sinobyte: CNET Blog on technology and the impact on China's environment, politics, and international affairs. - CNET News
...politics, and international affairs. - CNET News MIT professor on social responsibility in China's gaming culture Henry Jenkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who is perhaps academia's leading fanboy, spent...
In this article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, China, CNET, Capitalism, Armadillo Aerospace, Microsoft, and Shanghai
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www.latimes.com
'Transmedia': A brave new world in entertainment marketing
..."but at the end of the day, our grandest ambitions aren't going to be realizable." Tapping potential Jenkins' study of audiences goes beyond pop culture. His other class this semester is on new media literacy, an area where he applies...
In this article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Twitter, Hollywood, Moby-Dick, Star Trek, The Blair Witch Project, and Zombieland
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Henry Jenkins III (born June 4 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American scholar, currently Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program with William Uricchio.
Professor of literature and author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic, he was one of the first scholars to seriously study the effects of audience participation in media culture. He is recognized as an expert in the influence of digital popular culture on behavior, especially political behavior in a participatory media age.
One of Jenkins' earlier arguments was that the boundary between text and reader has broken down, not merely in the way the reader "constructs" the text (see deconstructionism), but in the growth of fan cultures. These could be seen by how "fan genres grew out of openings or excesses within the text that were built on and stretched, and that it was not as if fans and texts were autonomous from each another; fans created their own, new texts, but elements within the originating text defined, to some degree, what they could do."
He has also written extensively about the effects of interactivity, particularly computer games, and "games for learning", and in this capacity was called to testify before Congress in 1999. This work ultimately led to the founding of the Education Arcade group, also at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program.
He was featured in both Electronic Gaming Monthly and Game Informer magazines, where he was asked about the effects of violence in video games. He offered a very different perspective from Jack Thompson's.
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