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