A review by redbecca
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age by Henry Jenkins

3.0

If you haven't read Henry Jenkins, this book provides a good overview, including essays that were later developed into his most influential books, Textual Poachers and Convergence Culture. The section on video-gaming documents his participation in national debates about video-game violence following the Columbine shootings in 1999. At that point, I began to notice fallacies and misrepresentations in his depiction of his ideological opponents. The representation of the Columbine shooters does not benefit from research done by those who studied the shootings and shooters in depth only to find that they were not victims of school bullying, but especially in Harris's case, bullies. The concluding essays include some really speculative comments that associate Klebold and Harris with a kind of "revenge of the nerds" narrative that has since been debunked.