Henry Jenkins

(*1958) is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Art, and Education at the University of Southern California and the founder and former Co-Director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program. His ideas about participatory culture have taken shape across more than twenty five years of academic publications, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (1992), Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006), Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers (2006), Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture (2009), Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture (with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, 2013), Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick for the Literature Classroom (With Wyn Kelley, Katie Clinton, Jenna McWilliams, Erin Reilly, and Roberto Pitts-Wiley, 2013), and the forthcoming By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Culture (with Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-VIlenchik, and Arely Zimmerman). He blogs regularly at http://henryjenkins.org