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Article: Collision course: Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author/editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Convergence culture: where old and new media collide and fans, bloggers and gamers: exploring participatory culture. Magz Osborne talks to him for Television Asia Plus.(platforms)
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- November 1, 2008
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"WHEN I was asked to come to Singapore, and told I had to talk about the future of video games, I said 'I'll be talking to the future of video games', and here I am, " started Professor Jenkins, addressing Students' Day at the recent Games Convention Asia Conference, held 18-20 September 2008 at Suntec, Singapore. And in a post-presentation interview, he apologized for overloading his audience, "Education is like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose," he laughed.
But as one of the first humanities scholars to write seriously, academically, about aspects of popular culture and gaming, he has much to share of interest to 'old' or traditional 'mass' media ...