'Out of the Closet and into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek II Going Digital 5. 'Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking': Selections from the Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows 4. Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching 3. Excerpts from 'Matt Hills Interviews Henry Jenkins' 2. Introduction: Confessions of an Aca/Fan I Inside Fandom 1. 2006 Subjects: Mass media - Influence, Mass media and culture media, Mass media - Target ISBN: 0-8147-4284-X Title: Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture Author: Henry Jenkins Publication: New York: New York University Press, cop. It goes on to chart the growth of participatory culture on the web, take up blogging as perhaps the most powerful illustration of how consumer participation impacts mainstream media, and debate the public policy implications surrounding participation and intellectual property.Īmerican popular culture, consumer, fan culture, mass media, media producer Starting with an interview on the current state of fan studies, this volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in fan studies. Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers, fans, bloggers, and gamers takes readers from Jenkins's early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent writing, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of the Columbine shootings.

Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investment and participation. Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture

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