摘要：Ironically, given its title and theme, Henry Jenkins¡¯ newest book, Convergence Culture: Where
Old and New Media Collide, offers a maddeningly divergent range of ideas, arguments and anecdotes,
without ever converging on a single point or conclusion. The book aspires at various junctures to cultural
theory, techno-futurism, media criticism, subcultural anthropology, sociopolitical advocacy, and (perhaps
most effectively, if most surprisingly) 21st century marketing manifesto. Unfortunately, the whole amounts
to something less than the sum of its parts; despite many engaging passages, presented in Jenkins¡¯
typically accessible and entertaining prose style, not one of these many germs of an idea comes to full
fruition.
