{"product_id":"fans-bloggers-and-gamers-exploring-participatory-culture-paperback","title":"Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Jenkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers, \u003cstrong\u003eFans, Bloggers, and Gamers\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Jenkins \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eTextual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConvergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein a Networked Society\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBy Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists\u003c\/i\u003e. He blogs at henryjenkins.org and co-hosts the podcast \u003ci\u003eHow Do You Like It So Far?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 279\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.92 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722491203647,"sku":"9780814742853","price":73.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/607af3463506602b501407c96edace17.webp?v=1765095933","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/fans-bloggers-and-gamers-exploring-participatory-culture-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}