Henry Jenkins
- Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Principal Investigator, Project New Media Literacies
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Expertise Summary
Expert in popular culture, social media and online fan communities
Expertise
- transmedia storytelling
- popular culture and public culture
- entertainment
- criticism
- media history
- networks and networked computer games
- new media
- social networking Web sites
- science fiction and other online fan communities
- education
- the early history of film comedy
Additional Information
- Author, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, on the subject of transmedia storytelling
- Worked with MacArthur Foundation to shape media literacy program designed to explore effects of participatory media on young people