Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

The Chronicle features Henry Jenkins

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great feature on Dr. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. Too bad it’s locked down so that most folks can’t access it…

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