Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers – Exploring Participatory Culture Jenkins Hardback

Fans, Bloggers, and GamersExploring Participatory Culture\nAuthor(s): Henry Jenkins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814742846, 978-0814742846\nSynopsis\nBrings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers\n Henry 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.\n Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life.