How might we deploy the ever-expanding body of Fandom Studies scholarship to revitalize debates around the nature of the public sphere and the potential of democracy? How does the collective concept of fandom align with classic concepts of publics and counterpublics or imagined communities? Can we speak of a public sphere of the imagination? Tapping a broad range of examples (from the empathetic publics surrounding Steven Universe to the feminist debates around Barbie in China, from the Q-Anon conspiracy theories in the United States to the Lightstick revolution in Korea or the use of the One Piece Straw hat pirate flag as an oppositional symbol in Indonesia), this talk explores how the kinds of public discourse that emerges within fandom may spill over into activism for social change. This talk draws on ideas being developed in conjunection with Robert Kozinets for the Frames of Fandom book series.
Henry Jenkins is Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, Education, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of more than twenty five books, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists, and most recently, Fandom as Subculture.
Lokale 4A. 1.60.
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