Henry Jenkins has a new article in this morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education, suggesting the ways that the field of media studies needs to shift in the face of the increasing penetration of the read/write web (the link above should be good for the next few days, after which time I’ll hope that the article has been moved to the free side of the Chronicle website.)

I’ve opened the floor to reactions and discussion over at MediaCommons.  What do you make of Jenkins’s arguments?  And how might MediaCommons figure into the future that Jenkins projects? 

Perhaps after I finish with this week’s four department meetings and two program meetings. Not to mention the departmental social event, and the conference call, and the two one-on-one meetings, and the lecture.

And then there’s that little teaching thing I do sometimes. Today, we wrapped up Gravity’s Rainbow. Wednesday, it’s on to Underworld. And then there’s the other class.

So yes, I do intend to start blogging again. Right after I manage to get myself “caught up” (or so I’ve heard it called), and also get “a full night’s sleep” (ditto).

Incidentally, one thing that I can write about is MediaCommons, which is making fabulous progress.  We’ve migrated the site to a new, much more flexible platform (multi-user WordPress), we’ve got In Media Res going full-bore, with new posts every weekday, and we’ve just announced the founding members of our editorial board.  The new ed board members will be blogging there with us in the coming days.  Stop by and welcome them—and stay tuned for more ways to get involved…

I’m apparently on something of a hiatus, at the moment. In part it’s due to the issues I last wrote about (I’m too busy for much of interest to happen, and what of interest is happening, I can’t write about), but it’s also in part due to the fact that these days I seem to have the attention span of a gnat. I’m hoping to be back here, on something more akin to my regular posting schedule, shortly.