Nottingham Guest Speaker Series
Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century
University of Nottingham
The third speaker in our interdisciplinary guest speaker series,
Professor Chris Atton, will be speaking on Thursday 21st May.
Admission is free. All are welcome. To book a place at the talk,
please email Iain Smith at [log in to unmask]
'Virtual Community and Popular Culture: Expertise and Authority in Fan
Discourse'
Professor Chris Atton
Thursday 21st May 2009, 6pm-7pm followed by refreshments
Room A18 (Arts Graduate Centre) Trent Building, University of Nottingham.
Abstract
Studies of popular culture have increasingly turned to the amateur
media practices of fans to understand how ordinary people make sense
of their own pleasures. A primary site for this research has been the
printed fanzine, a magazine written, edited and published by fans
themselves. With the movement of much fan writing to the internet,
what can we learn about the key notions of identity and community,
often argued to be at the heart of fan culture? This paper will
explore the nature of internet-based fan discourse and will look
particularly at how fans’ engagement with their objects of desire –
and with each other – have developed in an on-line environment.
Biography
Chris Atton is Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts
and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh. His
research specialises in alternative media, and he is the author of
four books, including Alternative Media (Sage, 2002) and Alternative
Journalism (Sage, 2008), as well as over fifty articles and book
chapters. He is particularly interested in questions of democratic
access to the media and the social value of participatory media. He
has made special studies of fanzines, the media of new social
movements and popular music journalism.
Attendance is Free. All are Welcome. Please RSVP to [log in to unmask]
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Part of the Generation Net lecture series. For further information
visit http://generationnet.ning.com/
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Executive Committee
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
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Editorial Board
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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