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Abstract: This study is the first to systematically investigate the extent to which apps for children aged 0–5 foster play and creativity. There is growing evidence of children’s use of tablets, but limited knowledge of the use of apps by children of children of this age. This ESRC‐funded study undertook research that identified how UK…
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I. Introduction The Culture that Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies Defining Popular Culture – Henry Jenkins (MIT), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) & Jane Shattuc (Emerson College) II. Self Daytime Utopias: If you lived in Pine Valley, you’d be home – Elayne Rapping (SUNY, Buffalo) Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult…
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Get a life,’ William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a life,’ a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active…
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ContentsIntroduction: Confessions of an Aca/Fan I Inside Fandom1 Excerpts from “Matt Hills Interviews Henry Jenkins” 2 Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching 3 “Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking”4 “Out of the Closet and into the Universe”: Queers and Star Trek with John CampbellII Going Digital5 “Do You Enjoy Making the…
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Young children may make extensive use of media texts (e.g., movies, cartoons, songs) in their storytelling and play. Their experience with such texts may become evident as children learn to use and produce written texts. Through their writing, media material, such as the video creature Donkey Kong, may mingle with school material such as the…
