#176 | Henry Jenkins | Fans and Pop Culture

USC professor Henry Jenkins on 25 books about fandom, popular culture and participatory media. Henry Jenkins is the author or editor of 25 books on popular culture, including "Textual Poachers: Television Fans" and "Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide", "By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism" and the "Frames of Fandom" book series. He is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, Education, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. To learn more about Henry: https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/henry-jenkins Chapters 0:00 Welcome Henry Jenkins 2:34 Growing up near Stone Mountain 5:10 Where the South is going 7:40 A choice every Southerner made 10:11 Iowa was too Iowa 12:45 Institutions shape us 15:20 Money and ethics at MIT 17:50 Twenty years of the digital revolution 20:25 The Matrix and transmedia storytelling 22:59 Working with industry 25:33 Lucas, Spielberg and beyond film 28:08 More votes for American Idol 30:40 From Murrow to Studs Terkel 33:10 How Ryan edits the podcast 35:43 The participatory end of media 38:17 Podcasts that open other worlds 40:49 Predicting the future 43:23 When fans turn on an author 45:54 K-pop Demon Hunters 48:29 The global scramble for soft power 51:00 Fandom and censorship in China 53:33 Safe spaces through pop culture 56:08 The Great Firewall 58:39 Hanfu and Chinese historical fiction 1:01:10 China grows more conservative 1:03:41 Pop culture and the social contract 1:06:15 Asian pop culture in LA 1:08:50 Fans and K-pop labels 1:11:24 Dreaming of the stars 1:13:58 Interconnectedness and the environment 1:16:28 Thai films on Netflix 1:19:03 US soft power 1:21:35 Nollywood's rise 1:24:05 Parasite and subtitles 1:26:40 Reimagining the South through food 1:29:10 Writing with a Southern accent 1:31:45 A majority-minority country 1:34:15 A film and a half a day 1:36:46 Studios without their finger on the pulse 1:39:17 From Star Trek fanfiction to K-pop 1:41:48 Movies as events The Ryan Pyle Podcast is ad-free by choice. If you enjoy these conversations, you can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ryanpyle Ryan's TV series are streaming around the world. Follow the Podcast X: https://x.com/RyanPylePodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpylepodcast Follow Ryan Pyle YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ryanjpyle Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryanpyle X: https://x.com/RyanPyle Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpyle https://www.ryanpyle.com