Henry Jenkins

“Digital Youth Project by Mizuko”

— Henry Jenkins

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations…

— Henry Jenkins

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say…

— Henry Jenkins

When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once…

— Henry Jenkins

“Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is…

— Henry Jenkins

If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you…

— Henry Jenkins

Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted.…

— Henry Jenkins

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to…

— Henry Jenkins

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of…

— Henry Jenkins

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

— Henry Jenkins

“thousands of people. She debated her opponent on National Public Radio and found herself in the center”

— Henry Jenkins

“The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from…

— Henry Jenkins

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

— Henry Jenkins

“Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic…

— Henry Jenkins

“When politicians like Sen. Joseph Lieberman target video game violence, perhaps it is to distract attention from the material conditions that give…

— Henry Jenkins

“MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative in digital media and learning. They”

— Henry Jenkins

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

— Henry Jenkins

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

— Henry Jenkins

“million initiative in digital media and learning. They are published openly online (as well as in print) in”

— Henry Jenkins

Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no…

— Henry Jenkins

From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our…

— Henry Jenkins

“Buckingham argues that young people's lack of interest in news and their disconnection from politics reflects their perception of disempowerment. "By and…

— Henry Jenkins

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again…

— Henry Jenkins

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume…

— Henry Jenkins

“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a…

— Henry Jenkins