Henry Jenkins

Henry Jenkins III is an American media scholar. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1958. Henry earned his masters in communication at the University of Iowa. He then received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jenkins is currently a professor of several different programs at USC including the school of communication and the school of cinematic arts. He worked previously as the co-director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the prestigious MIT. On top of teaching at these top of the line universities, Jenkins has managed to write several books including, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic.

Lately, Jenkins has been working on the topic of Media Convergence. He argues that with the continuing advancement in new media technology and the ever-expanding reaches of media convergence are to be understood as a cultural process, rather than a technological end-point.

Henry is also known for his work in the field of electronic gaming. He is most publicly recognized in several gaming magazines including, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Game Informer.

Jenkins has published many works. One of his more recent, popular pieces that he has worked on was in 2006. Jenkins was the lead author of a White Paper for the MacArthus Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative. This paper, called Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.

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