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CMS Co-Director Henry Jenkins last month joined the likes of Madeleine Albright, Craig Newmark, and Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson for a panel on how public policy and private initiatives can better meet the public's information needs.

Jenkins participated in a similar panel at Aspen last year on media and values and blogged about the experience:

As I found myself making small talk with everyone from the heads of major media companies to former members of the Bush administration, the one topic which seemed to have captured everyone's interest was Harry Potter. Almost everyone had stories to tell about the experience of reading the final book in the series. In Convergence Culture, I suggested that fan communities might offer us better chances to talk about shared values across the ideological divides that currently shape American politics because they offer us shared fantasies and common reference points. Well, this was a pretty dramatic illustration of that principle at work.

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CMS Director Henry Jenkins was interviewed recently for PBS' website companion to their 4-part Frontline series, News War, touching on topics covered by the New Media Literacies and Convergence Culture Consortium research initiatives.

We are living through a shift in the communications environment on a scale that has only occurred a few times in human history, comparable to the shift from [an oral tradition] to literacy, the emergence of print and the rise of modern mass media. Each of these moments fundamentally altered pretty much everything in the culture, touching every major institution, impacting all aspects of everyday life, and fundamentally reshaping our understanding of what it meant to be human.

Read the full article.

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CMS Director Henry Jenkins is featured in this podcast at ThoughtCast, discussing "the path from 'participatory culture' to 'participatory democracy.'"

Listen to the podcast.

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As reported by Dean Takahashi in his blog for the San Jose Mercury Times, CMS director Henry Jenkins is one of a number of interviewees for Spencer Halpin's documentary Moral Kombat, a documentary about the controversy and dialogue surrounding the issue of video game violence. Halpin includes commentary from people involved with the issue from the gaming industry, academia, the legal profession, journalists, as well as government and the military.

The trailer has been posted to YouTube.

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The current edition of MIT's ZigZag podcast (Episode 12) features CMS Director (and Project NML Primary Investigator) Henry Jenkins and Project NML Research Assistant Neal Grigsby discussing the Project NML Exemplar Library, and the TATs Cru graffiti exemplar in particular.

Check it out at http://web.mit.edu/zigzag (it's about a third of the way through Episode 12).

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Professor Henry Jenkins speaks with GameDaily BIZ regarding his new book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide as well as his upcoming appearance at the Serious Game Summit in October, where he'll be presenting a keynote on the age of media convergence and collective intelligence.

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Thunderbirdsix.org sits down with Henry Jenkins and Ernest Adams for an interview at Future Play (scroll down to episode nine). You can also download an MP3 of the interview.

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A conversation with Henry Jenkins III is online from the Future Play 2005 conference.

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CMS Director Henry Jenkins discusses "The Power and Pleasures of Reality TV" in this interview with Chicago Public Radio.

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In this interview for TechNation, Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Henry Jenkins and learns how he thinks video games will revolutionize education.

(via IT Conversations)

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Professor Henry Jenkins is among the panelists in this discussion on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

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Professor Henry Jenkins is interviewed by Brooke Gladstone in this discussion from NPR's On the Media.

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From The Guardian: "The great art of the 21st century will not be on canvas but on computers. Jack Schofield talks to Henry Jenkins to find out why games are the new Goya." (read the article)

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