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  • Participatory Culture in a Networked Era

    A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

    by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd ...
    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. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Textual Poachers

    Television Fans and Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    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 between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Convergence Culture

    Where Old and New Media Collide

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleConvergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways.Henry ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Where the Wild Things Were

    Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Series series Postmillennial Pop
    Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhoodThe 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for parenting was unfolding that put emphasis on ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wow Climax

    Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impactVaudevillians 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 was celebrated by other writers for ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry 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 media. Though ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • By Any Media Necessary

    The New Youth Activism

    by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Arely Zimmerman ...
    Series Book 3 - Connected Youth and Digital Futures
    The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisis—frequently represented as uninterested in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • By Any Media Necessary

    The New Youth Activism

    by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Arely Zimmerman ...
    Series Book 3 - Connected Youth and Digital Futures
    The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisis—frequently represented as uninterested in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Convergence Culture

    Where Old and New Media Collide

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channelsConvergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, and where the powers of the media producer and the power of th... ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Comics and Stuff

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves nowFor most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Participatory Culture

    Interviews

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Since 2006, Henry Jenkins's Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog has hosted interviews in which academics, activists, and artists have shared their views on the changing media landscape. For the first time, Jenkins – often called “the Marshall McLuhan for the twenty-first century” – compiles some of these interviews to highlight his recurring interests in popular culture and social change.Structured ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • After Midnight

    Watchmen after Watchmen

    by Suzanne Scott ...
    Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, Brandy Monk-Payton, Chamara Moore, Drew Morton, Mark C. E. Peterson, Jayson Quearry, Zachary J. A. Rondinelli, Suzanne Scott, David Stanley, Sarah Pawlak Stanley, Tracy Vozar, and Chris ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD