The connections to Scarry here should come as no surprise. Present day electronic culture provides the tools, the ready-made objects, for people to combine and recombine into their own artifacts. The main difference between Ulmer and Jenkins is that Ulmer's writer is viewed predominantly as a single person engaged in relationships to texts, while Jenkins sees the particular subculture which arises through fan interaction as a primary interactive element in addition to texts. The Web environment promises to mate these two positions of private writing and burgeoning fan culture. It is no longer necessary to meet at conventions in order to foster community.
Fans can meet at MOOs, build websites, exchange e-mail, and post to newsgroups.
Even though fans speak from a marginalized position, they speak as a community with a collective identity. These nomadic readers are not simply automatons of ideology. Cultural appropriation not only works to the benefit of dominant corporations, but also for the cultural poachers who seek relations, appropriations, and reflections of identity. They rewrite characters around their own lives, placing the original character under erasure . The character is still visible, even if in name only, but it is inadequate to embody their lives, so they infuse themselves in it- write new characters and situations around it.