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  Convergence Culture

  by Henry Jenkins

  Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
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  Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age

  by Henry Jenkins

  Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) 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,... (more)
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  Relational Aesthetics

  by Nicolas Bourriaud

  Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the ... (more)
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  Warlocks and Warpdrive: Contemporary Fantasy Entertainments With Interactive and Virtual Environments

  by Kurt Lancaster

  This book offers ten chapters examining contemporary fantasy entertainment forms that use virtual environments to amuse the participant. Called "virtual fantasies" by the author (as opposed to virtual realities), these entertainment forms are categorized into three main groupings. All include performance and imaginary environments as essential elements-participants are often simultaneously performers and audience.... (more)
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  Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture

  by T. L. Taylor

  In Play Between Worlds , T. L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps—as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of... (more)
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  Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)

  by Catherine Spooner

  Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But what is it about this dark and morbidly morose aesthetic that fascinates us today? In Contemporary Gothic , Catherine Spooner probes the reasons behind the... (more)
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  Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet

  Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and... (more)
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  Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who (Popular Fiction Series)

  by John Tulloch

  Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" of our time--the science fiction series Doctor Who and Star Trek . Both of theses programs have survived cancellation and acquired a following that continues to grow. The book is based on years of research including interviews with fans and followers of these two television series. In that period fans and... (more)
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  Fashioning Gothic Bodies

  by Catherine Spooner

  This innovative book explores the role played by clothing in the discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between the veils, masks and disguises of Gothic convention, and historically-specific fashion discourses, from the revealing chemise-dress popularized by Queen Marie Antoinette to the subcultural style of contemporary Goths. In so doing it sheds new light on the cultural construction of... (more)
• Star Trek The Motion Picture : Make-Your-Own Costume BookLynn Edelman Schnurnberger

  

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  Star Trek The Motion Picture : Make-Your-Own Costume Book

  by Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger

  Step-by-step directions for creating complete outfits just like those worn in the motion picture "Star Trek." Includes background "historical" data about the Star Trek worlds.
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  Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital (Music/Culture)

  by Sarah Thornton

  A close look at the music and culture of dance clubs and the "rave" phenomenon..
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  Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

  We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost , "stalk" our favorite celebrities on Gawker , attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel–each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together... (more)
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  40 Years of Gen Con

  by Robin D. Laws

  In 40 Years of Gen Con , gaming guru Robin D. Laws chronicles the story of every gamer's lifetime. It's a history that reaches out to four decades of gamers to form a vast collage of the Gen Con experience from every point of view - from the gamers playing in the halls, to the staffers behind the scenes, to the exhibitors on the sales floor. 40 Years of Gen Con is a treasure trove of personal interviews with game... (more)
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  The Post-Subcultures Reader

  Once it was just Mods and Rockers or Hippies and Skinheads. Now we have Riot Grrls and Rappers; Modern Primitives and Metalheads; Goths, Clubcultures and Fetishists; Urban Tribes, New Age Travelers and Internet fan groups. It is - unsurprisingly - becoming increasingly difficult to pinpoint exactly what "subculture" actually means. The Post-Subcultures Reader is the first book to reconsider the use of this... (more)
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  Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (A Columbia / SSRC Book)

  Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about... (more)
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  Fans: The Mirror of Consumption

  by Cornel Sandvoss

  In FANS: THE MIRROR OF CONSUMPTION, Cornel Sandvoss explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. The scope of the book is impressive - he looks not just at the nature and development of whole fan cultures, but also focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan. In addition, the book proposes a new perspective on fans and popular culture, arguing that... (more)
• The Cult of the AmateurAndrew Keen

  

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  The Cult of the Amateur

  by Andrew Keen

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  Textual Poachers (Studies in Culture and Communication)

  by Henry Jenkins

  Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid 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.
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  Ambient Findability

  by Peter Morville

  How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by... (more)
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  Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games

  by Edward Castronova

  From EverQuest to World of Warcraft , online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours—and dollars—partaking in this popular new brand of escapism. But the line between fantasy and reality is starting to blur. Players have created virtual... (more)