Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins IIIis an American media scholar and a Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He also has a joint faculty appointment with the USC Rossier School of Education. Previously, Jenkins was the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities as well as co-founder co-directorof the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and technical advisor at...
expression community focus
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
loyalty technology media
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then new consumers are migratory, showing a declining loyalty to networks or media. If old consumers were isolated individuals, then new consumers are more socially connected. If the work of media consumers was once silent and invisible, then new consumers are now noisy and public.
book kids hands
We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,
mean technology thinking
Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.
frustration media desire
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
inspirational kids games
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.