Henry Jenkins
Henry Guy Jenkins III (born June 4, 1958) is an American
media scholar and Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the
University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the
USC School of Cinematic Arts. He also has a joint faculty appointment with the
USC Rossier School of Education. Previously, Jenkins was the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities as well as co-founder and co-director (with
William Uricchio) of the
Comparative Media Studies program at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has also served on the technical advisory board at
ZeniMax Media, parent company of video game publisher
Bethesda Softworks. In 2013, he was appointed to the board that selects the prestigious
Peabody Award winners.
Jenkins has authored and co-authored
over a dozen books including ''By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism'' (2016), ''Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture'' (2013), ''Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide'' (2006), ''
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture'' (1992), and ''What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic'' (1989).
Beyond his home country of the United States and the broader
English-speaking world, the influence of Jenkins' work (especially his transmedia storytelling and participatory culture work) on media academics as well as practitioners has been notable, for example, across
Europe as well as in
Brazil and
India.
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