Jenkins, fandom and participatory culture

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Jenkins's first key idea, jenkins's second key idea and jenkins's third key idea.

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1. 1

   Which theorist treats fans as co-creators of a text's meaning?

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   Henry Jenkins describes fandom in those terms. Jenkins studies participatory culture and fan production.

2. 2

   State Jenkins's first key idea.

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   Jenkins argues that fans help build and spread the meanings a text carries. Fans add to a text rather than only consuming it.

3. 3

   State Jenkins's second key idea.

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   Jenkins argues that fans take texts and read them in ways no producer authorised. Jenkins calls the practice textual poaching.

4. 4

   State Jenkins's third key idea.

   Model answer

   Jenkins argues that fans build social and cultural identities by borrowing and inflecting mass culture images. Participatory culture gives fandom a vital social dimension.

5. 5

   What is textual poaching?

   Model answer

   Textual poaching is the taking of material from a text for the fan's own purposes. Producers do not authorise these uses.

6. 6

   Where did Jenkins take the idea of poaching from?

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   Jenkins adapted the idea from Michel de Certeau's account of everyday reading. Readers were described as poachers moving through someone else's land.

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