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MIT 3404   Special Topics in MIT: Fan Cultures

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This course provides an in-depth study of fan cultures, with a focus on the practices, behaviours, and activities of contemporary fandom. In particular, this course examines the ways that fans struggle over the meanings of texts, by actively resisting, rewriting, and remixing media products in their own desired ways. At the same time, it explores how the contemporary media industries have responded to fan cultures by integrating and commodifying fan labour into its practices.

3 lecture hours, 0.5 course



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