Henry Jenkins III

Henry Jenkins was the Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT at the time of our classroom video. Research indicates that he changed positions in July, and he is an author. His major of passion seems to be in ways to better the media communication for classrooms, students and teachers. By dealing with Journalism and multi-media he has done much research and experimentation to become an authority on the subject. He has authored many books regarding the topics of media, and has used games as a means of education.
One of the points he brought out in his video indicates that the student who is deprived of Internet sources such as YouTube and questionable words, deters the student from gaining access to information necessary to do a complete research on the subject. For instance Moby Dick cannot be accessed because one word in the title is slang for a part of the male anatomy, and YouTube has much educational value in some areas. He referred to this as “doubly failing”.
He also stated that we have a displacetian gap. There is no such word in the dictionary and he didn’t express how he was spelling it! He was using this phraseology to emphasize the inability of some students to access the necessary means to be able to fully research a project. In media we are told not to wear certain colors in front of green boards or blue boards, and he stated that the student who couldn’t have a green board in their garage was not able to accurately describe the necessity of it.
He was too far away from the microphone, or didn’t have the sound set correctly, or something. I listened to his video several times, and still missed much information because I couldn’t hear him. I had all of my computer speakers, and the volume on the video engaged to their loudest settings. This tells me that his expertise on multi-media leaves something to be desired.
I don’t care to use Wikipedia as a source for anything because others have the opportunity to edit the content; however, the only information I could access was of his authorship. I saw his curriculum vitae which includes 27 pages of information, his blog, and titles of books he has authored. I don’t believe that he would be elevated to the positions he has held and continues to hold, if he wasn’t an authority on his research in his expertise.
My experience has been that I have access to the library through an off campus link. So I think I tend to disagree with the assertions made by Professor Jenkins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jenkins
http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/cv.html