Henry Jenkins is leaving MIT, to take up a position at the University of Southern California. Whoa - that's big news, and something of a seismic shift; Henry has been such a major driver of media and cultural studies (especially also in the new media area) in the US, and he's one of a handful of people who have made MIT a very strong player in this field. I wrote my Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage book while I was a visiting scholar with the Comparative Media Studies group there, and I'm very grateful for Henry's support and collegiality during and after that time (and in his announcement post, he's even found the time to include our Creative Industries Faculty at QUT as one of a select number of leading research institutions in the field) - so I wish him all the best at the new place; at least the flight over to Australia has now become a good deal shorter for him... Commiserations to the folks at MIT - it will be interesting to see whom they find to fill Henry's shoes!
