Metaphors such as Brownian motion do not only offer us a different framework for understanding the creative processes that characterize fan fiction writing they also remind us to focus on those creative processes themselves, as well as on the fans who engage in them. Whereas textual poaching offers us a vision of fans as nomads, moving through a place and collecting materials, Brownian motion offers us a vision of fan fiction as world building, a process that remakes the place itself. One promising alternative structure is that of Brownian motion, a scientific concept that both Michel de Certeau and Constance Penley have offered as a metaphor for creativity. Challenges to this model and metaphor are important but have not successfully displaced the prominence of the textual poacher. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless. The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Yet, as 'Textual Poachers' argues, fans already have a 'life', a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Henry Jenkins is the author or editor of 20 books on various aspects of media and popular culture.
Henry Jenkins's metaphor of the textual poacher has achieved tacit acceptance and widespread circulation, suggesting that it has become relatively fixed as a description of fan creative practices among fans as well as in scholarship. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. 'Get a life', William Shatner told 'Star Trek' fans. New metaphors must be adopted for the writing of fan fiction. Brownian motion, Creative process, Readers, Textual poaching Abstract Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Jenkins: Used.
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