"Fan fiction is the way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk."
Textual Poachers: television fans & participatory culture by Henry Jenkins (c. 1992)

"The Poachers and the Stormtroopers: Cultural Convergence in the Digital Age" - Talk presented at the University of Michigan, Spring 1998 by Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT