International Council for Media Literacy

Bridging Academia to Action

International Council for Media Literacy
Bridging Academia to Action

Author Profile: Henry Jenkins, PhD

  • Henry Jenkins, PhD
    IC4ML Advisory Council; Provost Prof of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts & Education
    University of Southern California
    Henry Jenkins is the Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author and/or editor of twenty books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, and several others.  His most recent books are Participatory Culture: Interviews (based on material originally published on this blog), Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change, and Comics and Stuff.He is currently writing a book on changes in children’s culture and media during the post-World War II era.  
    Learn more about Henry here: http://henryjenkins.org/

What Super Bowl Advertisements Can Teach Us About the Civic Imagination

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Co-Authored By: Maximilian Brichta, Do Own Kim, Paulina Lanz, Amanda Lee, Steven Proudfoot, Sangita Shresthova, Isabel DeLano, Molly Frizzell, Alfonso Hegde, Azeb Madebo, Ioana Mischie, Christopher Persaud, Becky Pham, Marley Randazzo, Khaliah Reed, Daisy Reid, Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen, Jessica Steel, Mythily Nair, Essence Wilson Abstract This article explores how Super Bowl … [Read more...] about What Super Bowl Advertisements Can Teach Us About the Civic Imagination

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In Remembrance: John Fiske—A Great Mentor

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I had two great mentors in my PhD program—David Bordwell and John Fiske. I learned with much pain and sadness that John Fiske has passed away (here is his obit). I was lucky to have been asked twice to write about John and his impact on the field of cultural studies. This morning, I find myself rereading one of the two essays which has a passage describing how John enter my … [Read more...] about In Remembrance: John Fiske—A Great Mentor

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On Multisensory and Transmedia Stories: A Conversation between Angela Ndalianis and Henry Jenkins

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This special issue of Journal of Media Literacy focuses around “storytelling” and learning across media. Both of us write about a broad array of different media in our work, often making juxtapositions between past and present, high and low. As a way of introducing what we do, it might be helpful to explore what drives these explorations. How would you sum up some of the core … [Read more...] about On Multisensory and Transmedia Stories: A Conversation between Angela Ndalianis and Henry Jenkins

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