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Textual poachers : television fans and participatory culture

An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals.

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  • "An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals."@en
  • "On the true impact of media fans and popular culture."@en
  • ""Get a life", William Shatner told "Star Trek" fans. Yet, as "Textual Poachers" argues, fans already have a "life", a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests.; Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of programme meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices. Written from an insider's perspective and providing examples from fan artifacts, "Textual Poachers" offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Ceteau, Jenkins shows how fans of "Star Trek", "Blake's 7", "The Professionals", "Beauty and the Beast", "Starsky and Hutch", "Alien Nation", "Twin Peaks", and other popular programmes exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, and speeches."
  • "The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the original release of Textual Poachers. A study guide by Louisa Stein helps provides instructors with suggestions for the way Textual Poachers can be used in the contemp."@en
  • ""Get a life", William Shatner told "Star Trek" fans. Yet, as "Textual Poachers" argues, fans already have a "life", a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"

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  • "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture"
  • "Textual poachers : television fans & participatory culture"
  • "Textual poachers : television fans and participatory culture"
  • "Textual poachers : television fans and participatory culture"@en
  • "Textual Poachers : Television Fans and Participatory Culture"
  • "Textual Poachers Television Fans & Participatory Culture"
  • "Textual poachers television fans & participatory culture"
  • "Textual poachers television fans & participatory culture"@en
  • "Textual poachers television fans and participatory culture"@en
  • "Textual Poachers Television Fans and Participatory Culture"@en
  • "Piratas de textos : fans, cultura participativa y televisión"
  • "Piratas de textos : fans, cultura participativa y televisión"@es
  • "Textual poachers : television fans and partecipatory culture"

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