When i was first given the topic of Henry Jenkins, i was bored more than anything. During my weekend as i was watching some Comic-Con documentary by Morgan Spurlock i was met with a brief probably 10 seocnd interview with Henry Jenkins himself. This sparked my interest as i began my research into this man’s accomplishments.

His blog… what can i say? It pretty much details his life’s work and his everyday thoughts. He is a very interesting man, reseraching and studying fields of interest which i can really relate to or feel intrigued by. Comic books, films, internet fads you name it, he has written something on. Its intriguing to see that a fairly elderly man is so in with the times and even more so condones the usage of such technology and entertainment. When was the last time you heard someone older than 40 say “Video games are a separate art form”.

His work on New Media Literacies draw many relations to this subject, Networked media. Instead of learning practical and hands on studies, he focuses on the social thinking and skills needed to interact and work with any form of technology. He lists a series of long steps, but the one thing that i noticed was that all of his steps were intuitive. It was more of a fancy way to categorise and label the actions that we as humans perform in order to learn and interact with new media. I love it when learning something is very straight forward and practical as you end up finding ways to apply it and can see first hand its effects. As they say “Seeing is believing”.