Henry Jenkins

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Full Name	Henry Jenkins
Occupation	Scholar
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1958(1958-06-04)
Age	66
Birthplace	Atlanta
Country	United States
Birth City	Georgia
Horoscope	Gemini

Henry Jenkins Biography

Henry Jenkins is one of the most popular and richest Scholar who was born on June 4, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Jenkins’ interest in vaudeville theater and popular cinema was an early focus of his research career – his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin explored how the comedy performances of American vaudeville influenced comedy in 1930s sound films, such as those of the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, and Eddie Cantor. The dissertation became the basis of his 1992 book What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic. A key argument of Jenkins’ scholarship here was that vaudeville placed a strong emphasis on virtuoso performance and emotional impact which contrasted sharply with the focus of classical Hollywood cinema on character motivation and storytelling. Jenkins’ approach was partly inspired by cultural commentators who believed that early cinema was unfairly treated by skeptical commentators of its era because it was a rising new popular culture medium. It was also influenced by scholars of film aesthetics such as David Bordwell. This approach would later help shape Jenkins’ scholarly appreciation of video games as another rising popular culture medium attracting much criticism.

Henry 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.

Henry Jenkins Net Worth

Henry Jenkins is one of the richest Scholar from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Henry Jenkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jenkins’ research into video games was influenced by his prior interest in the debates around emerging popular culture media forms as well as his parallel interest in children’s culture. Referring to Gilbert Seldes’ Seven Lively Arts (1924) which championed the aesthetic merits of popular arts often frowned on by critics who embraced high art to the exclusion of popular art, Jenkins dubbed video games “The New Lively Art” and argued that it was a crucial medium for the growing rise of digital interactive culture.

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One of Jenkins’ most well-known concepts has been his “transmedia storytelling”, coined in 2003 which has become influential not just within academia but also in media arts and advertising/marketing circles and beyond.

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Building on his work on participatory culture, Jenkins helped lead Project New Media Literacies (NML), one part of a 5-year $50 million research initiative on digital learning funded by the MacArthur Foundation which announced it in

2006. NML’s aim was to develop instructional materials designed to help prepare young people to meaningfully participate in the new media environment. As Jenkins explained it: “The NML conceptual framework includes an understanding of challenges, new media literacies, and participatory forms. This framework guides thinking about how to provide adults and youth with the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, ethical framework, and self- confidence needed to be full participants in the cultural changes which are taking place in response to the influx of new media technologies, and to explore the transformations and possibilities afforded by these technologies to reshape education.” Jenkins introduces a range of social skills and cultural competencies that are fundamental for meaningful participation in a participatory culture. The new media literacies areas given particular definitions by this project (as listed here) include: appropriation (education), collective intelligence, distributed cognition, judgment, negotiation, networking, performance, simulation, transmedia navigation, participation gap, the transparency problem, and the ethics problem.

What is Henry Jenkins known for?

The author or editor of 20 books on media and popular culture , Henry Jenkins has spent his career exploring the intersections between participatory culture, participatory learning and participatory politics.

What is convergence according to Henry Jenkins?

Henry Jenkins argues that media convergence goes beyond a mere technological shift, insisting that it also represents a shift in industrial, cultural, and social paradigms, where “ consumers are encouraged to seek out new information and make connections among dispersed media content.”

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Who invented transmedia storytelling?

Transmedia storytelling, which was coined by Henry Jenkins , is described as a process where integral elements of a story are disseminated systematically across multiple channels in order to generate a uniform and synchronized entertainment experience [1].

What is participatory culture Henry Jenkins?

A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.