As we recently noted in our The Sky Is Rising study, all of the evidence shows that we're living in a time of true abundance in terms of the content world. All of the data shows this. It's really incontrovertible. And yet, we keep hearing from cer... read more

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st… read more

Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that Zynga has made up a big portion of Facebook's revenues. But lots of public investors only seem to have gotten the memo on Wednesday evening, when Facebook's S-1 filin... read more

In your acknowledgements, you describe Bollywood dance as "a messy, yet appealing, reflection on my own scattered cultural identity." What aspects of your autobiography did you draw upon in shaping this book? Is there something about Bollywood en... read more

In which: Atari, Ms. Pac-Man, TV Fun, early cinema, my seven year-old son, George Plimpton, Urban Outfitters, Lynn Spigel, International Center for the History of Electronic Games, Computer Lib/Dream Machine, Blip, Pilgrim in the Microworld, the I... read more

I spent the last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When my friends (y’all) learned I was going, some were supportive while others were horrified. A few called me an outright traitor. Given how much mythology there is around t... read more

2011 C3 Research Memos and White Paper Series (2012 Public Release) edited by Prof. Henry Jenkins, Prof. William Uricchio and Daniel Pereira Now available on the C3/FOE website: Assumption Hunters: A New Profession for the Corporation in the Thro... read more

And now for some news: After some wonderful extended visits there, this summer I will be joining Microsoft Research New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a Principal Researcher. It’s an extraordinary opportunity to be part of a dream team i... read more

The new year is off to a great start with a flurry of press coverage for both Freedom and Anti-Social.  The coverage started with Pico Iyer’s wonderful New York Times piece, The Joy of Quiet.  Iyer’s reflection on finding quiet in the modern world... read more

CFP: The Game is On! The Transmedia Adventures of Sherlock When the BBC premiered its 2010 three-part series Sherlock, it re-envisioned a character who had been adapted and re-adapted in multiple reincarnations for over a century. 113 years earlie... read more