Fans, Gamers, and Bloggers: Exploring Participatory Culture (Paperback)

by Henry Jenkins (Author)

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Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: New York University Press (August 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814742858
ISBN-13: 978-0814742853
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g
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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 represented the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though 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 ground-breaking 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, discuss 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.

About the Author

Henry Jenkins is the DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and founder/director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. He is the author and editor of eleven books, including The Children's Culture Reader (NYU Press, 1998), and more than 150 published essays.

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