Fandom as a mode of second production: active audienceship of the rising shadow
| Autor: | Irma Hirsjärvi, Saara L. Taalas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy. 7:245 |
| ISSN: | 1741-8135 1478-1484 |
| DOI: | 10.1504/ijmcp.2013.056503 |
| Popis: | Looking and visuality imply an audience. The aim of this paper is to open audience’s passive role as a communicative receiver for discussion. The paper will focus on the productive practices of a digital fandom network of science fiction and fantasy genre literature. It connects Walter Benjamin’s notions of the afterlife of texts and the translator’s task (1924, 1936) to fandom as a productive network (Fiske, 1992; Jenkins, 1992). The empirical analysis draws from an ethnographic study of a Finnish science fiction and fantasy literature fandom Rising Shadow digital network, www.risingshadow.net. The analysis illuminates how networked exchanges produce translation zones and loving closeness as a form of afterlife of genre texts facilitating learning, accumulation of expertise within fandom network, and even professional development that is linked to commercial publishing and fan production in media. |
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