Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers Exploring Participatory Culture

Name: Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers Exploring Participatory Culture
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ISBN: 9780814742853

ISBN-10: 0814742858

ISBN-13: 9780814742853

Edition: 2006

Authors: Henry Jenkins

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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. -Cory Doctorow, author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and co-editor of Boing Boing Henry Jenkins' 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 marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 279
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Henry Jenkins is Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is the coeditor of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (MIT Press, 1998).