Convergence Culture
Subtitle: Where Old and New Media Collide
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780814742952
Notes: Updated with a new afterword
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: "Worship at the Altar of Convergence": A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change; title: 1. Spoiling Survivor: The Anatomy of a Knowledge Community; title: 2. Buying into American Idol: How We Are Being Sold on Reality Television; title: 3. Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling; title: 4. Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry; title: 5. Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars; title: 6. Photoshop for Democracy: The New Relationship Between Politics and Popular Culture; title: Conclusion: Democratizing Television? The Politics of Participation; title: Afterword: Reflections on Politics in the Age of YouTube