I would like to assign it to my graduate online "Internet Studies" course that starts next month if I may!
It will be very useful to them (the class is not fandom studies, but I'm using Jenkins' "Convergence Culture" and Chun's "Power and Paranoia in The Age of Fiber Optics," and am going to have them apply the methods to a case study of an internet community that is creating something, and while that isn't only fandom, Henry's "fans are early adopters and now others are doing the same thing" means that these concepts will be incredibly useful even if they aren't dealing with traditional fandom!
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Date: 18 Jun 2010 05:35 pm (UTC)I would like to assign it to my graduate online "Internet Studies" course that starts next month if I may!
It will be very useful to them (the class is not fandom studies, but I'm using Jenkins' "Convergence Culture" and Chun's "Power and Paranoia in The Age of Fiber Optics," and am going to have them apply the methods to a case study of an internet community that is creating something, and while that isn't only fandom, Henry's "fans are early adopters and now others are doing the same thing" means that these concepts will be incredibly useful even if they aren't dealing with traditional fandom!