H Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 18853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2221-9583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 793 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1842 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘Forging All of These Disparate Versions into One Continuous, Coherent Storyline’: Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze as Archontic Fiction
Comic book creator Eric Shanower has tackled the challenge of creating an account of the Trojan War, Age of Bronze , that might incorporate and reconcile thousands of years of historic and literary accounts into one coherent narrative. This article reads this series of graphic novels as illustrating the concept of the archontic, that is, literature that builds on and reworks the archives of previous texts. Moreover, Shanower's work on Troy and el…
Wheels on the ground, worlds in motion: An Introduction to transcultural fandom in East Asia
This article introduces the special issue dedicated to transcultural fandom, with a focus on China, Korea, and broader contexts beyond East Asia. Framed through the metaphor of a shared bus ride, this introduction reflects on a research trip led by Henry Jenkins, which brought together scholars and students from the United States and China to explore how fandom travels across cultural, linguistic, and political borders. It situates the issue with…
Notes on Transcultural Fandom, Imaginary Homelands, and Sartorial Fan Practices
The path from participatory culture to participatory politics: A critical investigation—An interview with Henry Jenkins
In this interview, Henry Jenkins critically reviews his theorization of the logical and practical connection between participatory culture and participatory politics, which is enabled and facilitated by the civic imagination of various social groups strategically and affectively deploying popular culture resources for different political purposes. Henry Jenkins emphatically discusses the democratic potential of participatory culture in autocratic…
Confronting horror, embracing fantasy: A conversation about Lovecraft Country and radical imagination in higher education
Higher education is at a pivotal point of reflection due to the forces of neoliberalism, anti-Blackness, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the past, higher education has overlooked the university’s far future, opting to focus on readily conspicuous change. Along with this disregarded conversation, these crises present higher education faculty, administrators, and staff an opportunity to critically re-think the future of higher education given…
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fa…
Flying cars and bigots: Projecting post-Covid-19 worlds through the atlas of the civic imagination as refuge for hope
In April 2020, the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, asked participants around the world to share some of their reflections on what the world of 2060 might look like, and what roles the COVID-19 pandemic may have played in transforming how we live and relate to each other. For the past six years, the Civic Imagination Project has been conducting world-building workshops with gr…
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation
This is a scripted adaptation of a conversational podcast interview between Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets about contemporary consumer activism and its relationship to media studies. After the interview, the conversants agreed to develop the transcript of the conversation in order to be more relevant to a scholarly audience who are interested in how Jenkins’ ideas apply to the understanding and investigation of consumer culture today. The conv…
The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution
Introduction: Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths
Why Mitt Romney Won’t Debate a Snowman
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today’s ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called “user-generated content.” Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of part…
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways. Henry Jenkins, …
Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence
Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future
This collection looks at the post–network television industry’s heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling—or wired TV—that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the introduction of broadband into the majority of homes and the proliferation of popular, participatory Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Contributors address a wide range of issues, from the networks’ sporadic efforts to engage…
Fandom, Negotiation, and Participatory Culture
Using tools and frameworks for cultural studies, this chapter explores fandom as a form of participatory culture, one which facilitates the social negotiation of the meaning and value of popular texts, enables grassroots creative responses, and provides a context for debates about issues of representation, diversity, and inclusion. This chapter explores why it remains meaningful to talk about audiences and their activities even in a networked soc…
On cinema and convergence
Using Star Wars and the Marvel Extended Universe as primary examples, this essay explores the ways that transmedia storytelling practices have altered Hollywood entertainment, resulting in a stronger emphasis on world building and a more participatory relationship with its audiences. Transmedia in its contemporary form assumes a networked audience that is actively seeking out information about entertainment experiences they care about, resulting …
Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Henry Jenkins, former professor of humanities, MIT, is one of the leading science authorities in the analysis of New Media. Today, he is Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at USC. In this dialogue, Jenkins explains how technology is transforming the traditional view of humanities. He outlines his vision of convergence culture in his book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide . He explains why he thinks the …
Negotiating fandom
This chapter suggests the urgency of thinking more deeply about the negotiation that all readers, viewers, and listeners perform within a largely segregated media landscape—especially fans of color who are struggling with issues of inclusion and representation within popular media. It focuses on the ways fans of color use various forms of racebending to advocate for alternative representations at a time when America is once again working through …
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
“Cultural Acupuncture”: Fan Activism and the Harry Potter Alliance
Written two decades apart, these statements by Fiske and Slack illustrate shifts in how fan activity connects the popular imagination and real-world politics. Both claim that fandom’s “sense of solidarity... [and] shared resistance” empowers individuals to make decisive steps towards collective action. Fiske sees fandom as an informal set of everyday practices and personal identities, while Slack describes organisations with institutional ties to…
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Spreadable Media:Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Online Roundtable on Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, with participants Paul Booth, Kristina Busse, Melissa Click, Sam Ford, Henry Jenkins, Xiaochang Li, and Sharon Ross. Moderated by Lousia Stein, Book Review Editor Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. New York University P…
Rethinking ‘Rethinking Convergence/Culture’
Responding to the September 2011 special issue on 'Rethinking Convergence Culture', this essay seeks to identify ways that the author's thinking about convergence and participatory culture have shifted over time, often in ways that are closely aligned with the issue's contributors. Throughout the essay, the author addresses the links between cultural and political participation, the challenges in using new media in support of democratic change, t…
Fandom studies as I see it
Responding to the recent issue of Journal of Fandom Studies focused on Textual Poachers at 20, this article explores the roots of fandom studies, the value of public-focusing scholarship and the importance of broadening the topics that fandom research explores
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways. Henry Jenkins, …
The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence
Responding to the contradictory nature of our current moment of media change, this article will sketch a theory of media convergence that allows us to identify major sites of tension and transition shaping the media environment for the coming decade. Media convergence is more than simply a technological shift. Convergence alters the relationship between existing technologies, industries, markets, genres and audiences
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the original release of Textual Poachers. A study guide by…
Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment: An annotated syllabus
This article describes my experiences teaching a course on Transmedia Entertainment and Storytelling at the University of Southern California, a course which sought to bridge across multiple media and methodologies, to integrate the perspectives of industry insiders, and to encourage students to apply what they learn to the challenge of “pitching” a media franchise to a panel of creative practioners. The essay both shares the syllabus as a resour…
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation
This is a scripted adaptation of a conversational podcast interview between Henry Jenkins and Robert Kozinets about contemporary consumer activism and its relationship to media studies. After the interview, the conversants agreed to develop the transcript of the conversation in order to be more relevant to a scholarly audience who are interested in how Jenkins’ ideas apply to the understanding and investigation of consumer culture today. The conv…
Fandom studies as I see it
Responding to the recent issue of Journal of Fandom Studies focused on Textual Poachers at 20, this article explores the roots of fandom studies, the value of public-focusing scholarship and the importance of broadening the topics that fandom research explores
People from that Part of the World: The Politics of Dislocation
Rethinking American Culture" was a forum featuring the work of George Lipsitz in a dialogue between American Studies and anthropology about the ways in which "new forms of commercial patterns and practices, new movements of people and products, and new communications technologies are producing new ways of studying culture." This dialogue addresses the struggles over the social warrants of U.S. culture in the 21st century and how historians and an…
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
Going Bonkers!”: Children, Play and Pee-wee
The path from participatory culture to participatory politics: A critical investigation—An interview with Henry Jenkins
In this interview, Henry Jenkins critically reviews his theorization of the logical and practical connection between participatory culture and participatory politics, which is enabled and facilitated by the civic imagination of various social groups strategically and affectively deploying popular culture resources for different political purposes. Henry Jenkins emphatically discusses the democratic potential of participatory culture in autocratic…
Reading critically and reading creatively
O texto discute a relevância da ficção derivada de obras literárias pelos seus fãs, levantandoa diferença entre a leitura crítica e a leitura criativa. Ele explora as principaistécnicas utilizadas e as motivações dessa subcultura, assim como sua manifestação naInternet. Além de citar algumas obras comerciais baseadas em clássicos, ele tambémdiscute o possível impacto pedagógico de se apropriar desse fenômeno na sala de aula
Star Trek Fans and Costume Art
Star Trek Fans and Costume Art by Heather R. Joseph-Witham. Folk Art and Artists Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. pp. 72, Preface, Photographs. $32.50 cloth. $16.95 paper) Heather R Joseph-Witham, a doctoral candidate in folklore and mythology at UCLA, has produced the first sustained account of costume art within the Star Trek fan community. In recent years, Star Trek fandom has emerged as a central locus of research for …
Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!”: Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty
Research Article| September 01 1991 “Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!”: Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-1-2_25-26-202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Henry Jenkins; “Don't Become Too Intimate Wit…
Shall We Make It for New York or for Distribution: Eddie Cantor, "Whoopee", and Regional Resistance to the Talkies
On 23 March 1930, Broadway patrons opened the New York Times entertainment section to discover that Eddie Cantor, a fixture on the local stage since 1917, was abandoning the legitimate theater for the cinema. In an open letter to his loyal followers, Cantor proclaimed, This is to certify that I am in my right mind, white, free and rearin' to go to Hollywood.' The alert reader was probably not very surprised by this proclamation, having watched fo…
XIX. Observations on the Site of Camulodunum, in a Letter from the Rev. Henry Jenkins, B.D., to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Through my friend, Dr. Rowlands, I transmit to you my observations on the site of Camulodunum. My first intention was to have traced the whole of the 9th Iter, but I have been prevented by my professional duties from attempting so much, and have confined my inquiries to my own neighbourhood. To Messrs. Tayspill and Gilbert I am greatly indebted for their kindness in tracing on the Ordnance Map the various roads and places mentioned in the Paper. …
On Cæsar’s Passage of the Thames, and the Direction and Extent of his Subsequent Route Through Britain
Fiscal Equity in the Unequal Treatment of Unequals: A Suggested Test
Army Newspaper Names
T HE LINGUISTIC inventiveness of the American soldier of the Second World War has been questioned by H. L. Mencken, who has declared that the soldier 'limited his argot to a series of derisive names for the things he had to do and endure. Neologisms, says Mencken, were few, and he may be right. In naming his newspaper, however, the American soldier exercised his imagination and was not bound by civilian convention. An exhaustive survey of the nam…
Reading Popular History: The Atlanta Child Murders
Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten: Fan writing as textual poaching
This essay rejects media‐fostered stereotypes of Star Trek fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, or mindless consumers, perceiving them, in Michel de Certeau's term, as “poachers” of textual meanings who appropriate popular texts and reread them in a fashion that serves different interests. Specifically, the essay considers women who write fiction based in the Star Trek universe. First, it outlines how these fans force the primary text to accom…
Going Bonkers!”: Children, Play and Pee-wee
If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music, Textual Proximity, and Liminal Identification
Research Article| May 01 1990 “If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music, Textual Proximity, and Liminal Identification Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 148–175. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-2_23-148 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Henry Jenkins; “If I Could Speak With Your Sound”: Fan Music, Tex…
Shall We Make It for New York or for Distribution: Eddie Cantor, "Whoopee", and Regional Resistance to the Talkies
On 23 March 1930, Broadway patrons opened the New York Times entertainment section to discover that Eddie Cantor, a fixture on the local stage since 1917, was abandoning the legitimate theater for the cinema. In an open letter to his loyal followers, Cantor proclaimed, This is to certify that I am in my right mind, white, free and rearin' to go to Hollywood.' The alert reader was probably not very surprised by this proclamation, having watched fo…
Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!”: Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty
Research Article| September 01 1991 “Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!”: Unruly Wives, Female Comic Performance and So Long Letty Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (1-2 (25-26)): 202–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-1-2_25-26-202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Henry Jenkins; “Don't Become Too Intimate Wit…
What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Journal Article What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic. By Henry Jenkins. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xii, 336 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-231-07854-4.) Get access Michael Rogin Michael Rogin University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Page 1512, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Star Trek Fans and Costume Art
Star Trek Fans and Costume Art by Heather R. Joseph-Witham. Folk Art and Artists Series. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. pp. 72, Preface, Photographs. $32.50 cloth. $16.95 paper) Heather R Joseph-Witham, a doctoral candidate in folklore and mythology at UCLA, has produced the first sustained account of costume art within the Star Trek fan community. In recent years, Star Trek fandom has emerged as a central locus of research for …
‘Strangers No More, We Sing': Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community
Media fans are consumers who also produce, readers who also write, spectators who also participate.
Les cultes médiatiques: Culture fan et œuvres cultes
X Files, Friends, Jimmy Hendrix ou Les Tontons flingueurs... le culte a envahi tous les domaines, du cinéma à la musique, du livre à la télévision. Mais le culte n'est pas simplement une expression passe-partout : il nous invite aussi à analyser de nouveaux modes de rapport aux œuvres. Quelle signification accorder à ce terme issu du champ religieux et appliqué aux publics des grands médias contemporains ? Quelle représentation des publics appara…
“No Matter How Small”: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss
Defining Popular Culture
The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies
Defining Popular Culture
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers const…
The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence
Responding to the contradictory nature of our current moment of media change, this article will sketch a theory of media convergence that allows us to identify major sites of tension and transition shaping the media environment for the coming decade. Media convergence is more than simply a technological shift. Convergence alters the relationship between existing technologies, industries, markets, genres and audiences
“Never Trust a Snake”: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who
Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based on over ten years of research including interviews with fans and followers of the series. In that period, though the fans may have changed, and ways of studying them as "audiences" may have also c…
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic was celebrated by other writers for its vitality, its liveliness, and its playfulness.The Wow Climax follows in the path of this more laudatory tradit…
People from that Part of the World: The Politics of Dislocation
Rethinking American Culture" was a forum featuring the work of George Lipsitz in a dialogue between American Studies and anthropology about the ways in which "new forms of commercial patterns and practices, new movements of people and products, and new communications technologies are producing new ways of studying culture." This dialogue addresses the struggles over the social warrants of U.S. culture in the 21st century and how historians and an…
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits o…
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