Henry Jenkins Quotes

#1. The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

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#2. Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.

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#3. Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

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#4. Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

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#5. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.

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#6. That changes your whole perception of the film, your perception of the ending ... The challenge for us, especially with the Lord of the Rings is how do we deliver that one piece of information that makes you look at the films differently?

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#7. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

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#8. Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves

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#9. In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

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#10. Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

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#11. The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

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#12. Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

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#13. Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

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#14. Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

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#15. We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

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