CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dwane Casey, Gilmore Girls, Participatory Culture
17 Oct 2017
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Media audiences and effects c01 (missed lecture slides from last week) References to statistics, highlights, etc. require just as much knowledge (albeit of a different kind) as discussion of, say, art history. But this may be changing, as fan communities and cultures find ways to monetize their works and knowledge: for e. g. , streamers with advertising relationships on twitch or youtube, fanfic authors who can secure publishing contracts. Fan activism: *or fandoms of the (soap) opera. Reappropriation of marginal or undervalued subcultures within popular entertainment and commercial mass culture. Fans can be mobilized to press producers and media corporations for changes (or, as is more often the case, to prevent changes from coming about in a favorite media text). john l. sullivan. Other series that ended up cancelled, like freaks and geeks, aired more episodes than would have been possible without fan intervention: series was initially supposed to cancelled earlier, it might be cancelled but it is shocking.
