Introduction: what is participatory culture? / The new left and the computer underground: recovering political antecedents of participatory culture / From participation to power / Wikis and participatory fandom / Who's steering the mothership? The role of the fanboy auteur in transmedia storytelling / The guiding spirit and the powers that be: a response to Suzanne Scott / A localization shop's tale: bringing an independent Japanese role-playing game to North America / Collaborative new media poetry: mixed and remixed / Collaborative comics: the story behind Pixton / The assault on creative culture: politics of cultural ownership / The creative conversation of collective intelligence / Blogging as a free frame of reference / Crowdsourcing: a model for leveraging online communities / How particle physicists constructed the world's largest grid: a case study in participatory cultures / Restructuring civic engagement: meaningful choice and game design thinking / The future of participatory budgeting: political participation and practicable policy / Participatory democracy / Cultures of participation in social movements / From cultures of participation to the rise of crisis mapping in a networked world / Digital activism in authoritarian countries / Activism on the ground: Habitat for Humanity / Participative pedagogy for a literacy of literacies / Leveraging digital media to create a participatory learning culture among incarcerated youth / The expanding role for media literacy in the age of participatory cultures / Participation and the technological imaginary: interactivity or interpassivity? / Participatory culture and media life: approaching freedom / Legal constraints on participatory cultures in the United States: anonymity, concealment, and revelation / Toward an ethical framework for online participatory cultures