Henry Jenkinsis Provost's Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He was previously the DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and the Founder/Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. The author or editor of eleven books includingTextual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory CultureandFrom Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, Jenkins also writes a regular column forTechnology Review.