Henry Jenkins is the founding director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and is the Peter de Florez Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Currently completing a book entitled Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Intersect, he has written or edited 11 other books, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, (with Justine Cassell) From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, (With Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc) Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, and (with David Thorburn) Democracy and New Media. Jenkins writes a monthly column on the social and cultural impact of media and technology for Technology Review Online and with Kurt Squire, a monthly column for Computer Games Magazine which explores the intersection between academic game theory and the game design community. He is one of the leaders of The Education Arcade, an initiative to promote the educational uses of computer and video games.

Jenkins has testified about youth and media violence before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, addressed the Federal Communications Commission on children and media literacy and spoken to the Governor's Board of the World Economic Forum on Intellectual Property and Media Change. He was recently awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to explore the skills which children and youth need to become more effective communicators, learners, and citizens in the 21st century.

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