One of Jean Kluge's ST:TNG drawings was used as the cover for the book. It features chapters about fanac (fan activities) like fanfic, fan art, vidding, and filk. However it remains a sympathetic and insightful book about media fans and our creative community. The book was published before commercial Internet service providers allowed mass access, and to some fans now, appears dated in its focus on old-school slash fandom. In Jenkins' words, the book "documents a group insistent on making meaning from materials others have characterized as trivial and worthless." The book's focus is on media fans as an "interpretive community" that "poaches" media texts in order to subvert their intended meaning and reclaim ownership of popular culture from massive corporate interests. The book was unusual for its time in that it celebrated fandom instead of pathologizing it. It was massively influential in the development of fan studies and coincidentally introduced many new fans to media fandom. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture is a non-fiction book written by aca-fan Henry Jenkins and originally published in 1992.
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