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Games For Change, a nonprofit organization that addresses games as "agents of social change," will be holding its fifth annual festival in New York City next week, June 2-4 at Parsons The New School For Design. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will give a keynote, as will MIT's Dr. Henry Jenkins and Arizona State University's Dr. James Paul Gee. More »
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Henry Jenkins runs the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT. He also blogs more words per day than Kotaku. Over at his eponymous website, Jenkins has been posting articles about the various serious games projects MIT CMS students have undertaken over the years. More »
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MIT smart-guy and gamer PhD Henry Jenkins carefully waded into the whole Second Life issue last week. More »
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Brainy dude Henry Jenkins chatted with GameSetWatch. Jenkins is the Director of Comparative Media Studies and Full Professor of Literature at MIT. Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has described him as "one of us: a geek, a fan, a popcult packrat" and Will Wright pointed out that "Henry Jenkins offers crucial insight into an unexpected and unforeseen future." Jenkins isn't our cheerleader, but a visionary, pointing out not only on what games are, but what they can and could be. More »
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Nerve put together a fun set of Q&As about sex, violence and the future of video games featuring a panel of seven well known gaming experts. More »
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Henry Jenkins, director of comparitive studies at MIT and games scholar extraordinaire, has written an essay debunking eight myths about video games. Among the myths Jenkins busts like a watermelon at a Gallagher show, "Children are the Primary Market for Video Games," "Scientific Evidence Links Violent Gameplay With Youth Aggression" and my personal favorite, "The Availability of Video Games Has Led to an Epidemic of Youth Violence." More »
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