AQA A-Level Media Studies 7572
Media Language
Media Representation
Media Industries
Media Audiences
Contexts of the Media
Media Forms and Products
Media Audiences
Fandom
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Overview
Prosumers, interactivity, and Jenkins on participatory culture and textual poaching.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is a prosumer?
Questions from this subtopic
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- 1
What term describes a media consumer who also produces and creates media content?
Model answer
Prosumer.
- 2
How does the concept of the prosumer challenge traditional media relationships?
Model answer
It blurs the traditional distinction between producer and consumer, as the same individual both consumes and creates media content.
- 3
What does interactivity mean in the context of fandom?
Model answer
Two-way engagement between audiences and media texts, where fans actively respond to, modify, and communicate about media content rather than passively receiving it.
- 4
How does interactive fandom differ from passive media consumption?
Model answer
Interactive fans actively respond to, modify, and communicate about content, whereas passive consumers simply receive media without engaging with or transforming it.
- 5
Which theorist developed influential ideas on fandom, participatory culture, and textual poaching?
Model answer
Henry Jenkins.
- 6
What three key concepts is Henry Jenkins associated with in media studies?
Model answer
Fandom, participatory culture, and textual poaching.
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