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Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Mud-Wrestling Media Maven From MIT

If this profile of Henry Jenkins III were a YouTube video, it would begin with footage of the influential scholar mud-wrestling his wife at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If it were a ...
MIT Technology Review

Henry Jenkins on Video Games

MIT professor Henry Jenkins and anti-game crusader Jack Thompson have an interesting side-by-side Q&A over at 1up.com. These two have squared off several times over the effects of video games on the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Henry Jenkins, Prominent New-Media Scholar, to Leave MIT for U. of Southern California

Henry Jenkins III, co-director of the comparative-media-studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has turned himself into something of an online celebrity by studying online ...
Engadget

Henry Jenkins has a blog (and a new book)

Erudite academic and advocate for all things gaming, MIT Professor Henry Jenkins has started a blog titled "Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins." Now you can finally trash ...
Publishers Weekly

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Henry Jenkins, founder and director of MIT's comparative media studies program, debunks outdated ideas of the digital revolution in this remarkable book, proving that new media will not simply replace ...
Education Week

EdTech and Equity: An Interview by Henry Jenkins

The excerpt below is cross-posted from Henry Jenkins’ blog, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, and the full interview is available at http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2018/1/4 ...
Mother Jones

Interview with Henry Jenkins: Director of the M.I.T. Comparative Media Studies Program

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Mother Jones: What’s the most exciting new use of technology in politics? Henry ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Transmedia’: A brave new world in entertainment marketing

Can a bench tell a story? Professor Henry Jenkins raised this topic in his very first class at USC three months ago. The benches refer to advertisements for “District 9” placed at bus stops nationwide ...
PBS

Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked

A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction. 1. The availability of video games ...
MIT Technology Review

Henry Jenkins

Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, ...