Category: Active Audiences

• May 11, 2010

  Shippers and anti-fan fans in Smallville fandom

  

  Ed note: This is paper/project about Smallville fans that I recently completed for a media audiences course at Indiana University. “[C]learly anti-fans construct an image of the text – and, what is more, an image they feel is accurate – sufficiently enough that they can react to and against it.” – Jonathan Gray[1] Most texts…
• April 8, 2010

  Catching up on DVD — What changes?

  One of the best TV critics around, Myles McNutt, has a poll up on his web site right now that will help him choose what series to catch up on via DVD here in the coming months. Obviously, DVD has done wonders for television viewers. We can wait until a entire season — or series…
• March 24, 2010

  Fandom and serial TV — Letting go, holding on

  A lot of ink has been spilled about the future of serial television, but even if I do not think that it is “going away” or “dying,” I’ve recently been thinking about how troubling it is to be a fan of these types of series. As a fan of serial television, there are usually two…
• February 28, 2010

  Twitter and TV viewing: Pay attention to me!

  In the last week, a couple of stories have been written about the growing use of Twitter during live television events and the interactive culture created by it. So obviously, people have taken to Twitter to talking about, which allowed me to find the articles.
• February 16, 2010

  The dead-end “dead” serial discussion: It’s not happening

  I’ve talked a lot about serialized television lately, and it seems like a lot of TV critics and scholars have the same thing on their mind with Lost coming to an end. In the past few weeks, a slew of articles and columns have hit the web about the topic, with some writing the serials eulogy.…
• February 11, 2010

  ‘Chuck’ versus the Ridiculous Fan Reaction

  FACT: NBC series Chuck has a ridiculously active fanbase. For anyone who doesn’t know, the fans — which included critics like Alan Sepinwall and Mo Ryan — of the series helped organize a slew of “Save Chuck” campaigns last spring, including pilgrimages to Subway, a sponsor of the show, and a number of social media-related outputs. For…