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Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

A Rant About Television's Difficulty in Representing Committed Relationships


By: Henry Jenkins
April 6, 2011

Two things collided over the past week for me as a loyal television viewer and I want to get them off my chest. I give fair warning that this is going to be a bit of a rant. There's almost no aca here and a hell of a lot of fan.

The first is that after watching House M.D. with some great pleasure for seven seasons, I am more and more facing the grim reality that it has more or less jumped the shark this season thanks to its frustrating and ill-conceived representation of the on-again, off-again love affair between House and Cuddy.

Check Out Student Work from Annenberg Innovation Lab Conference


By: Henry Jenkins
April 5, 2011

Last Friday, I had the pride and joy of participating in the first conference organized by the Annenberg Innovation Lab. The Lab is a new research initiative launched over the past year, with the goal of becoming an incubator for new media practices and platforms, a space where important conversations can occur between academics and industry leaders which may help shape the future of communications.

Over the Rainbow: John C. Tibbetts Opens Archive of Interviews


By: Henry Jenkins
March 31, 2011

Over the past year or so, I've been enjoying an active correspondence with John C. Tibbetts, a long-standing film researcher, who recently put out a three volume collection of highlights from American Classic Screen, a publication which in its day represented an important bridge between the world of film buffs and cineastes, on the one hand, and film scholars on the other.

How Learners Can Be On Top of Their Game: An Interview with James Paul Gee (Part Two)


By: Henry Jenkins
March 23, 2011



Your most recent book, Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning, moves us from a focus on the kinds of learning which occurs inside the game as we play towards the kinds of learning which takes place around the game as people build upon it through the mechanisms of what you would call affinity spaces or what I call Participatory Culture. You describe this as "gaming beyond gaming." What has motivated this shift of emphasis?

Announcing Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual Culture and Design


By: Henry Jenkins
March 10, 2011

Transmedia registration can now be done through
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Transmedia-Hollywood-2-Visual-Culture-and-Design-tickets/artist/1559777


TRANSMEDIA, HOLLYWOOD 2:
Visual Culture and Design

A UCLA/USC/Industry Symposium
Co-sponsored by
UCLA Producers Program,
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television
and
USC School of Cinematic Arts

A Remediated, Premediated, and Transmediated Conversation with Richard Grusin (Part Three)


By: Henry Jenkins
March 10, 2011

I am putting up the final installment of my conversation with Richard Grusin a day early as I am headed out of town for much needed R&R time with my wife. I will not be posting next week, but expect to return shortly thereafter.

History and Genealogy

A Remediated, Premediated, and Transmediated Conversation with Richard Grusin (Part Three)


By: Henry Jenkins
March 10, 2011

I am putting up the final installment of my conversation with Richard Grusin a day early as I am headed out of town for much needed R&R time with my wife. I will not be posting next week, but expect to return shortly thereafter.

History and Genealogy

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