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Saika monster legends fandom2/19/2024 ![]() ![]() The divide between fandom in-fighting is identified as a political one as opposed to a purely commercial or gendered one. The essay also questions the community nature of fandom, declaring them an ‘anti-community’ and how that disruptive ‘rogue reading’ negatively reaches media institutions. ![]() ![]() The interconnected nature of forums, social media and fan-sites have generated new types of reader bridging the gap between users and producer. Through an understanding of the ‘fannish’ dialect, it is noted how academic terms such as ‘auteur’ and ‘canon’ are colloquialised and altered in fandom settings to accommodate the various values of that circle, whether divisionary or inclusionary. Canon Fodder updates fandom by showing them to be multi-faceted communities rife with constant contradictions. This study largely acts as a response to Henry Jenkin’s formative work Textual Poachers, complicating his utopian notions of fandom-as-rebellion. The debate of creative ownership over texts is continued via online producer‐consumer conflicts and real-world legal controversies. Canon Fodder is a theoretical approach to the power struggle between fandom and media producers in the face of contemporary realities of the online age and the media conglomerates who inform both audience and creator. The modern reception of popular media is being infused with new and contradictory definitions of authorship that are characterized by online activism, fan-communities and their developing forms of self-expression. ![]()
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