Introduction : Confessions of an Aca/Fan -- [pt.] 1. Inside fandom -- 1. Excerpts from "Matt Hills interviews Harry Jenkins" -- 2. Star trek rerun, reread, rewritten : fan writing as textual poaching -- 3. "Normal female interest in men bonking" : selections from the Terra nostra underground and Strange bedfellows / Shoshanna Green, Cynthia Jenkins -- 4. "Out of the closet and into the universe" : queers and Star trek / John Campbell -- [pt.] 2. Going digital -- 5. "Do you enjoy making the rest of us feel stupid?" : alt.tv.twinpeaks, the trickster author, and viewer mastery -- 6. Interactive audiences? The "collective intelligence" of media fans -- 7. Pop cosmopolitanism : mapping cultural flows in an age of media convergence -- 8. Love online -- 9. Blog this! -- 10. A safety net -- [pt.] 3. Columbine and beyond -- 11. Professor Jenkins goes to Washington -- 12. Coming up next! Ambushed on Donahue -- 13. The war between effects and meanings : rethinking the video game violence debate -- 14. The Chinese Columbine : how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the Internet -- 15. "The monsters next door" : a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / with Henry G. Jenkins IV -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.