Confessions of an Aca-Fan by Henry Jenkins

Fieldnotes from Shanghai: An 'Adult' Playground

Here's me clowning around with some adult playground equipment. We stumbled onto these facilities near an old folk's home in Shanghai. The plastic equipment was heavily used by the older residents for their morning exercise.

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Photograph by Eric Klopfer

Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California. Until recently, he served as the co-founder of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More about Henry Jenkins is available here.