Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by <lj site="livejournal.com" user="henr

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Nonfiction. A review of fan culture, including writers, vidders, and filkers. This is great just as sociological snapshots and a repository of many of the classically understood theories of fandom and how it operates. It's rather uncomfortably outdated, though, appearing before the internet became a fannish locus. I'm also pretty unhappy with the ways Jenkins fails to push this "poaching" model -- he's a media studies guy, and he never once questions the models
of commercial ownership and audience disenfranchisement implicit in his own damn title. I suspect both these faults will be addressed in his upcoming books due out this summer. And on an entirely different note, how cool was it to see my friends like Shoshanna Green quoted and referenced here.