![]() Her current book project, Millennial Media, explores digital authorship and fandom in the millennial generation. One of the key works of fan studies that explored the cultural dimension involving fans production is Jenkins ( 1992) Textual poaching, a notion first introduced by Michel de Certeau in The. Louisa Ellen Stein is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, and is coeditor of the collections Teen Television and Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. ![]() She serves on the board of Transformative Works and Cultures, and is currently working on a book project based on her dissertation, "Revenge of the Fanboy: Convergence Culture and the Politics of Incorporation," addressing the gendered tensions surrounding contemporary fan culture and fan studies. This wave is referred to as Fandom is Beautiful. I have spent the past two years looking at fanzines and studying their history, and this has given me a much deeper appreciation of and familiarity with the fanzine medium. Suzanne Scott is a Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at Occidental College. Textual Poachers still heavily influences fan studies research which examine fan communities and fan text production (Coppa, 2014 Booth, 2009). Textual Poachers was published when internet fandom was in its very early years, so the text primarily concerns the fanzine era of media fandom in the 70s and 80s. His books include: Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, and Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He was director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program for more than a decade. Jenkins (1992, p23) stated that Fans construct their cultural and social identity through borrowing and inflecting mass culture images, and fans enthusiastically embrace. Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. For Abed, textual poaching is a way of life it is the technique he uses to understand reality, by recontextualising narrative devices and themes from film and TV.
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