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Henry Jenkins

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in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States

June 04, 1958

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http://www.henryjenkins.org

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Inhabited Narrative: From Participatory Culture to Living Storyworlds

The age of the audience is not ending. It is becoming the age of the inhabitant.

For decades, participatory culture has been pressing against a threshold it could never quite cross. Audiences consistently sought deeper forms of engagement with the worlds they loved. Back in the 20th century, chance encounters gave rise to fanzines, conventions, online forums, fan fiction, cosplay, and countless oth

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Average rating: 3.86 · 7,066 ratings · 449 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide 3.86 avg rating — 3,858 ratings — published 2006 — 7 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 — 655 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 — 309 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 — 257 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 (Goodreads Author) 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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