Henry Jenkins @ Annenberg, Wednesday @ 11am
Henry Jenkins will be giving a talk at the Annenberg Center entitled "YouTube to YouNiversity: Learning and Playing in an Age of Participatory Culture."
The chair of MIT's Comparative Media program, Henry is in considered to be one of the pre-eminent scholars on video games, fan culture and media convergence
The chance to meet Henry when he presented to the Networked Publics group last year, where he gave us an early copy of his tome "Convergence Culture", which, which intended for a more general audience, is of great interest to anyone in media studies. Henry's activist take on fan culture helped change my view on media studies, as he states in the book "a detente between traditions of political economy and audience research". Indeed, my current research with Todd Richmond is very much influenced by his writings. I attended the Futures of Entertainment symposium he organized at MIT, November 17-18. The event brought together major entertainment executives, to sit on panels with fan formum adminstrators, it was epochal. I highly recommend attending this talk if you can make it.