This week’s online lecture describes different areas of fandom and at the very first part it states the difference between Pathologised Fandom and Idealised Fandom.
Accoeding to lecture pathologised fandom is a common sense discourse around fandom while idealized fandom is the counter to pathologised fandom and is also known as oppositional discourse.
The examples of pathologised fandom are the geeky male fan, violent male football fan and screaming girls.
The lecture also describes the difference between cult fans and mainstream stream audiences. Cult fans are intentionally seek out of media texts and are less popular because very few people have knowledge about this type of fans.
Mainstream stream fandom is the situation when people are fans of popular media texts.
The example of mainstream stream fandom is twilight fans which is particularly associated with young women. The lecture also describes that there more research is going on this and there is opportunity to do a research on this.
The lecture also says that fan communities give the opportunities and the potential benefits for fans to come in a social and cultural network and discuss their views and share their love for fan object.
Shipping is the fan practice of supporting fictional romantic relationships. In this situation the fans supports fictional romantic relationships between characters who are already romantically involved in the media text.
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