Henry Jenkins
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Read More: #46, stay aware, not afraid
According to Benjamin Sutton: “Last night, a small group of artists and activists installed a series of subtly tweaked Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) advertisements in two train cars in the…
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Read More: Aca-Fandom: Who Me?
Although not an aca-fan (or ACA fan dancer) myself, I engaged in a fun and serious conversation with Derek Kompare and Jay Bushman as part of Henry Jenkins’ summer-long conversation,…
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Read More: The Failures of Fred’s Fans: For Youth Media Symposium
This is some of my talk for “Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media” at UCSD, April, 2010. I will also present it to my CGU Cultural Studies Graduate course,…
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Read More: Documentary Travels
My Netflix queue has recently deluged me with a slew of migratory films that track from fiction, to documentary, to stage, and back again: Grey Gardens, Trumbo, Every Little Step.…
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Read More: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and Bytes
In the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and The Hills (see video, True Life: I’m addicited to ‘The Hills’ on-line…
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Read More: Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical Circling
So, I’ve been teaching the second Learning from YouTube class this fall. The more normal one. The one with books. And lately, we’ve been reading Henry Jenkins’ Convergence Culture, after…