Henry Jenkins: 20 books
Steel Chair to the Head
The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine...
Convergence Culture
Where Old and New Media Collide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate...
Textual Poachers
Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
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...
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers
Exploring Participatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
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...
Reading in a Participatory Culture
Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other.Reading...
Science Fiction Audiences
Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
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...
The Wow Climax
Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006
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...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
YouTube
Online Video and Participatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters,...
Is the Universe a Hologram?
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era
A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation....
by Henry Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
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Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
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