AHSS 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fanspeak, Fan Labor, Argot
25 Dec 2018
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Fandom is an intense intellectual and emotional investment. Participatory culture: fans integrate the media they consume into their lives as an active resource. The reader [viewer, listener, interpreter] is not drawn into the pre-constituted world of fiction but rather into a world she has created from textual materials (jenkins) Its what fans do with it that makes it exceptional, empowering, edgy, subversive etc Its not about the author but the culture/fans that embraces it (the people vs. george. Fans engage in one kind of theory and criticism (discourse) The web becomes a site for the debate, presentation, interpretation, evaluation, and negotiation of meanings (fiske"s cultural economy). Fan cultures are not just consumers, they are also active cultural producers which opposes adorno-passive consumers. You learn life lessons from movies/music/shows/pop culture compared to textbooks etc. Fans re-write their favourite texts, sometimes in radical and subversive ways.
