Worldwide reference in transmedia, fandom, pop culture, entertainment, media literacy studies, Dr. Henry Jenkins will launch a new version of his website: Pop Junctions: Reflections on Entertainment, Pop Culture, Activism, Media Literacy, Fandom and More.

Renata Frade, DigiMedia’s PhD student, is the new Dr. Henry Jenkins’s website editor. She’ll be in charge of editing and creating contents related to Literature, Activism, Feminism, Civic Imagination, Technology, Digital Humanities, Ciberculture, HCI. Renata Frade is developing a doctoral investigation about women in tech.

The new site will have a more diverse coverage and will feature an incredible team of contributors. New content will be published soon: http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2022/10/15/new-editors

Henry Jenkins is the Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending more than a decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twenty books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism. His most recent books are Participatory Culture: Interviews (based on material originally published on this blog), Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change, and Comics and Stuff. He is currently writing a book on changes in children’s culture and media during the post-World War II era. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.