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Henry Jenkins

Born

in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States

June 04, 1958

Website

http://www.henryjenkins.org

Genre

Professional & Technical, Reference

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Foreword: Feminism with a Dance Beat!

Today I want to share the foreword I wrote for a new book, Female Universalism: Gender, Melancholia, and Radical Empathy in the Korean Wave. I have gotten to know Ingyu Oh, the book’s primary author, through a series of Hallyu related events, most recently a forum he organized around K-Pop Demon Hunters here in Los Angeles. In what follows, I provide some overview of the theories he and his colla

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Average rating: 3.86 · 7,052 ratings · 443 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide 3.86 avg rating — 3,854 ratings — published 2006 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture 4.23 avg rating — 650 ratings — published 1992 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop, 15) by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green 3.72 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age 3.83 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins, Ravi Purushotma (Contributor), Margaret Weigel (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito (Goodreads Author), Danah Boyd 3.89 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom by Henry Jenkins (Editor), Wyn Kelley (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins, Jane Shattuc (Editor), Tara McPherson (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (Connected Youth and Digital Futures, 3) by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson 3.56 avg rating — 45 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”
― Henry Jenkins

tags: games, homework, learning, students, video-games

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“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”
― Henry Jenkins

tags: fiction

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“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”
― Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

tags: fandom, media-studies

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