Henry Jenkins

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Jenkins is a media scholar best known for theorizing "convergence culture"—the collision of old and new media where audiences become active participants in meaning-making across platforms. The course readings invoke his concept to explain how ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) and participatory online practices create fragmented, nonlinear forms of collective sensemaking that blur the line between passive consumption and active civic engagement. His framework helps contextualize how digital networks enable both innovative forms of community problem-solving and potential vulnerabilities to misinformation (as suggested by the QAnon reference).

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