Fandom: Henry Jenkins

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

Audiences are an important part of media production, consumption and distribution

Question 2

Textual poaching

Answer 2

Audiences taking a media product and remaking or reworking it to create their own meaning

Question 3

Fan behaviour

Answer 3

Cosplay
Fan fiction
Post theories
Form subcultures
Interpret the content

Question 4

Personal identity

Answer 4

Merchandise
Engagement makes you a fan
Reflects their personality and demonstrates that they belong to a subculture

Question 5

Social entities

Answer 5

Relationship to a particular mode of reception
Role in encouraging viewer activism
Function as an interpretive community
Particular traditions of cultural production
Status as an alternative social community

Question 6

Mode of reception

Answer 6

Difference between a casual viewer and a fan
Fans will scrutinise teasers/trailers for clues

Question 7

Viewer activism

Answer 7

Powerless when it comes to plot development
Can become bitter and cruel

Question 8

Interpretive community

Answer 8

Everything is evaluated
Character and plot are discusses
Assumptions shares
Differences in opinions are enjoyed
Fill gaps in narrative

Question 9

Cultural production

Answer 9

Open to intervention and active appropriation