Fandom Culture
- Media Studies A-Level A2
- Partner with participatory culture mind map
- Gaming section
- Created by: daltog
- Created on: 12-02-22 17:30
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- Fandom Culture
- Taken to present a dedicated and active audience
- Present a dedicated active audience
- They are a significant part of contemporary consumer culture
- Fans develop extensive knowledge and expertise about their required fandom
- Display irrational loyalties to an aspect of pop culture
- Sometimes there is a division between members of society
- Subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and excitement with others who share a common interest
- Relationship with the media industry
- Social media made it easier for fans to share their views and opinions
- Fandom is generally discussed in relation to media consumption and media texts, sometimes being referred specifically as "media fandom" (Jenkins 1992)
- Fans socialize within affective communities of fandom and engage in sub culturally distinctive fan practices
- Collective audiences on a global stage
- Social media makes it easy for fans to share their views about their passions
- Media fans can be understood as "Active producers and manipulators of meaning" (Jenkins 1992)
- "Fandom's very existence represents a critique of conventional forms of consumer culture" (Jenkins 1992)
- Jenkins suggests that "fandom's very existence represents a critique of conventional forms of consumer culture"
- Providing a "space within which fans may articulate their specific concerns about sexuality, gender, racism, colonialism, militarism and forced conformity"
- Fans activity generate their own creative material but they often do so in ways which critique the media they are consuming
- Fans create identities - David Gauntlet Identity Theory
- Henry Jensen argues that there is a fine line between being a "normal fan" and "excessive fandom" this line is crossed when the difference between relaity and fantasy becomes unclear (1992) this line is constructed, context dependent
- Jensen explains, a person who is passionate about an academic subject can be just as passionate about that subject as a member of fan culture
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