2 Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Confessions of an Aca/Fan 1
4. I Inside Fandom
5. 1 Excerpts from “Matt Hills Interviews Henry Jenkins” 9
6. 2 Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching 37
7. 3 “Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking”: Selections from the Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows 61
8. 4 “Out of the Closet and into the Universe”: Queers and Star Trek 89
9. II Going Digital
10. 5 “Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?”: alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and Viewer Mastery 115
11. 6 Interactive Audiences? The “Collective Intelligence” of Media Fans 134
12. 7 Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence 152
13. 8 Love Online 173
14. 9 Blog This! 178
15. 10 A Safety Net 182
16. III Columbine and Beyond
17. 11 Professor Jenkins Goes to Washington 187
18. 12 Coming Up Next! Ambushed on Donahue 198
19. 13 The War between Effects and Meanings: Rethinking the Video Game Violence Debate 208
20. 14 The Chinese Columbine: How One Tragedy Ignited the Chinese Government’s Simmering Fears of Youth Culture and the Internet 222
21. 15 “The Monsters Next Door”: A Father-Son Dialogue about Buffy, Moral Panic, and Generational Differences 226
22. Notes 249
23. Index 269
24. About the Author 279