Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom

Simone Driessen is assistant professor in media and popular culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She lives near Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Bethan Jones is research associate at Cardiff University and an honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales. She is author of The Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files. Jones lives in Aberdare, South Wales. Benjamin Litherland is lecturer in film and media at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is author of Wrestling in Britain: Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences. Litherland lives in Manchester, United Kingdom.