SMC103Y1 Chapter Notes -Lynn Schofield Clark, Televangelism, Gregory M. Erickson
13 Mar 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Religion and popular culture: rescripting the sacred richard w. santana and gregory. Passive tv activity -> interactive, comprehensive viewing experiences. Fan communities are able to create a discourse and theoretical network on their own terms, based on rigorous and detailed viewing experiences (114) like am xnity, fan-based theorizing operates outside of institutional/legitimated modes of thought tv and religious practices. Star trek fan cultures, reinterpretations, authors into famous figures, vicil religion with organization, dogmas, canon of sacred texts, rituals, recruitment system. Tv now observable text in themselves forum for serious intellectual debate, primarily visible on the internet (115) Henry jenkins fandom is one of those spaces where people are learning to live and collaborate within a knowledge community (115) Vernacular theory-making, vernacular culture with own practices thomas. Jenkins fans central to how culture operates -> active audience now taken for granted, though controversial before.
