Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.

Excerpts from "Matt Hills interviews Harry Jenkins" -- Star trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching -- "Normal female interest in men bonking": selections from the Terra nostra underground and Strange bedfellows / with Shoshanna Green, and Cynthia Jenkins -- "Out of the closet and into the universe": queers and Star trek / with John Campbell -- "Do you enjoy making the rest of us feel stupid?": alt.tv.twinpeaks, the trickster author, and viewer mastery -- Interactive audiences? the "collective intelligence" of media fans -- Pop cosmopolitanism: mapping cultural flows in an age of media convergence -- Love online -- Blog this! -- A safety net -- Professor Jenkins goes to Washington -- Coming up next! ambushed on Donahue -- The war between effects and meanings: rethinking the video game violence debate -- The Chinese Columbine: how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the internet -- "The monsters next door": a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / with Henry G. Jenkins IV.

Contains selected essays in which Henry Jenkins discusses the interplay between the media industries and their consumers, and his own multiple identities as fan and scholar.