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Advice from Henry Jenkins

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 20 April 2009

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Last week on Friday, I met with Professor Henry Jenkins in his office at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies department about my future in graduate school.
Way back in the fall semester of 2007, I discovered the Comparative Media Studies website, and from there on my life would change as I switched gears from my English [...]

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Digesting Intarwebs

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 7 June 2008

At Berkman@10 during the Language of Openness breakout session, someone in the audience complained about the too frequent use of the word “consumer” when discussing the Internet and media in general. Ever since, consumer has also irked me and yet I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it’s the English major coming out in me. Clearly [...]

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Berkman@10: Networking

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 23 May 2008

Me playing Rock Band with Charlie Nesson, et al., courtesy of the Berkman Center @ Flickr
I’ve already discussed the social tools used (or overused, or underused?) during Berkman@10, but of course as at any conference much real networking occurred as well. Not one particularly adept as networking in any sense, I did meet an excellent [...]

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