SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Big Bang
27 Jan 2014
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Soc525 class 11 active audiences and fan practices. When we are fans of something, we get an active spectatorship when we want the narration to change or edit it and how the story plays out to change instead of passive audiences. Mass viewers: consume that particular text suggesting that as viewers, we have a certain passivity and this is constructed within the formation of that particular text. We watch something and just accept it; not seeing it from a critical perspective. Culture industry: motive is to provide cultural material that can be mass consumed; easily understood dumbed down cultural materials that can appeal to all of us (ie) t. v, radio, magazines, etc. Certain predictability: when you know what the tv show is going to do and how it is going to end. As a cultural text, an industry has produced this. Social authority: message coming off and you agree with it.
