Sunday, November 24, 2013

Participatory Media

Participatory media is essentially media where the everyone including the audience take part analyzing and producing. As of now, i am taking part in participatory media by writing this blog! Other modes of participatory media includes "sharing", podcasts, vlogging (video blogs), forums (media communities) etc. One type of participatory media that i liked was fan fiction.

I was already familiar with fan fiction before this lecture and it brings back memories of when i read them (i no longer read them anymore). It is basically short stories or even series written by the fans of a particular show, movie, book, or about a real person. They can sometimes be even more interesting that the actual story line the writer produced and it sort of gives an alternative to what could have happened. Fan fiction usually revolves around romance more than plot twists and it could be between a guy/girl, guy/guy, and girl/girl - also known as slash fan fiction.


Although I use to read anime fan fiction, fan fiction covers a lot - i even read fan fic of these singers that i was obsessed a while ago. I think fan fiction is still a hype because new shows and movies come out every year and therefore fans have more characters to like and write more stories about them. Even people who don't prefer reading it can see them as memes now a days since memes are more dominant.


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