Cult media
June 17th, 2008
Odd that this review of Henry Jenkins’s Convergence Culture has taken so long to appear in First Monday. (Almost as lengthy a time as in many non-electronic scholarly journals, I’m sorry to say!) I’ve had the book for quite a while, and found it a fascinating look at fan fiction, among other things. (My own interest as an LIS educator being, of course, the lure of the forbidden posed by all these “plagiarist people” so passionately reading and writing on the edge of our copyright borderline….)
By the way, Dr. Jenkins identifies himself as a “first-generation Star Trek fan” and blogs about things like “Is Obama a Secret Vulcan?”… so who says that tenured faculty at MIT can’t have any fun?!
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