Henry I Jenkins

What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic

What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games

Democracy And New Media

Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics Of Transition

From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games

Democracy and New Media

Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics Of Transition

Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins III (born June 4, 1958) is an American media scholar and currently a Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint...

By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (Connected Youth and Digital Futures)

Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.org There is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen a...

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, “stalk” our favorite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel—each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to lit...

Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumer...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)

"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misf...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview betwe...

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop)

Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized pla...

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. ...

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass medi...