Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture

Henry Jenkins

Published by New York University Press 2006

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

Exploring Participatory Culture

Henry Jenkins

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814743690.001.0001

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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. 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 investments and participation.
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 progressive early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent work, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Starting with an interview on the current state of fan studies, this volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies. 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.

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Jenkins Henry :

Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of 20 books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Society, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists. He blogs at henryjenkins.org and co-hosts the podcast How Do You Like It So Far?Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of 20 books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Society, and By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists. He blogs at henryjenkins.org and co-hosts the podcast How Do You Like It So Far?

Reviews

Jenkins persuasively argues in favor of taking the fan’s perspective in analyzing television-- and this is the cornerstone of the new turn in Cultural Studies.

Cory Doctorow,author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and co-editor of Boing Boing:
Jenkins is one of us: a geek, a fan, a popcult packrat. He's also an incisive and unflinching critic. His affection for the subject and sharp eye for 'what it all means' are an unbeatable combination. This is fascinating, engrossing and enlightening reading.

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Introduction: Confessions of an Aca/Fan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Inside Fandom
1 Excerpts from “Matt Hills Interviews Henry Jenkins” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 “Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking”: Selections from the Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows Shoshanna Green and Cynthia Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 “Out of the Closet and into the Universe”: Queers and Star Trek John Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
II Going Digital
5 “Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?”: alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and Viewer Mastery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6 Interactive Audiences? The “Collective Intelligence” of Media Fans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7 Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
8 Love Online Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
9 Blog This! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
10 A Safety Net Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
III Columbine and Beyond
11 Professor Jenkins Goes to Washington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
12 Coming Up Next! Ambushed on Donahue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
13 The War between Effects and Meanings: Rethinking the Video Game Violence Debate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
14 The Chinese Columbine: How One Tragedy Ignited the Chinese Government’s Simmering Fears of Youth Culture and the Internet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
15 “The Monsters Next Door”: A Father-Son Dialogue about Buffy, Moral Panic, and Generational Differences Henry G. Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: September 1, 2006
ISBN: 9780814743690