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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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Internet Culture Research: New (?) Thoughts on Memes

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 15 April 2009

This article is highly experimental and has been published merely as a thought-provoking piece; therefore, please forgive any rambling that takes place throughout. – The Management
Ever since I got involved with ROFLcon (I attended the very first one and have been working with the team on hosting the smaller ROFLthing events since), I have had [...]

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SXSW: Promote That Which is Awesome

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 12 August 2008

Awesomeness will be going down in Austin, Texas come March 2009.
I’m putting together a panel on technology in the classroom for an infamous conference called South by Southwest. My presentation’s called “Blackboards or Backchannels: The Techno-Induced Classroom of Tomorrow.” This thing’s BIG. And I’m trying to make it bigger.
I’d love to show the audience the [...]

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