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Interviewing and Learning with Henry

Finally I understand it clearly. I can know say I have a fundamental understanding of what the New Media Literacy project is after having a very informative interview with the principal Investigator Henry Jenkins. We had a very interesting lengthy interview, which I will post up in audio format, but due to its length I will also post highlights of the interview in a transcribed version.

Henry Chat1.mp3
Henry Chat 2.mp3
What is your name and what is your role in NML?
I am Henry Jenkins. I guess I'm principal Investigator, which means that I'm supposed to do the vision thing. I helped to spark the effort and helped to identify some of the socials skills and cultural competencies we were working towards. I work closely with every member of the team and I'm part of the brainstorming intellectual development around the materials we are working with. But mainly the most important role is I'm chief propagandist and missionary for NML. I go out and give talks, I write on the blog, I write articles my job is to get what we do here at MIT is visible the larger community where its going to make a difference.

Kidus The Teen Researcher: Janice The Teacher... I Mean Jenna.

Welcome back blog readers I had a great interview with Jenna, while making me fall out of my seat with laughter, I learned how important it is to have a teacher point of view for this NML project.

Kidus the Teen Researcher: Steve Schultze is the Legal Guy

Hello blog-readers. Welcome to my first of many interviews. Steve Schultze is my first interviewee. He is one of the five graduate research assistants on this project.

Steve Schultze and I had a very interesting interview and he showed me some important ideas that gave me a different point of view about kids using facebook and myspace.