The undergraduate curriculum has increasingly turned to cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary and even multi-disciplinary approaches to education.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Opening Comments”
This is the first in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 conference, hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “NBC’s Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV?”
What steps are networks taking to prolong and enlarge the viewer’s experience of a weekly series?
Henry Jenkins, the “Mud-Wrestling Media Maven from MIT”
CMS co-director Henry Jenkins is the subject of an extensive profile in the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Learning through Remixing”
Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture?
Jenkins interviewed for PBS’ Frontline on the future of news
Henry Jenkins: “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.”
Henry Jenkins on Ninjas, Politics, and the future of Democracy
CMS Director Henry Jenkins’ keynote speech at this year’s Beyond Broadcast conference held last week at MIT and co-hosted by Comparative Media Studies.
