Fandom and the Media...

[accioslash]

One of the things I think about a great deal in terms of the changing face of fandom is how much more visible it is to outsiders/the general public today. Although I have no illusions that actors and show producers were ever ignorant of the existence of fandom or slash, there is a far thinner barrier between TPTB and the ordinary fan today.

Comments

[shiv5468]

It'd be nice if Moffat actually sodding listened to anything he's told about his misogyny.

I shall answer a different question to the one you asked. Hee.

I don't like other fandom s. their stories and meta and comments get between me and enjoying dr who. I HATE Sherlock precisely because of the fannishness and the cumberbitching. I spend all my time going but but no that's not right get your hands off my cultural products.

[accioslash]

I shall answer a different question to the one you asked.

Or perhaps you are responding to the question I meant. ;D

It'd be nice if Moffat actually sodding listened to anything he's told about his misogyny.

Why should he since he is getting all this attention by being the way he is. Doesn't seem like anyone is less keen to hire or retain him.

As I said in my tl;dr reply to the_con_cept, trolling and intentionally provocative, even offensive, statements by show runners irritate me and actually decrease my ability to enjoy a specific work they are affiliated with, so I try to minimize my exposure to it because I want to enjoy the things I enjoy. But I think before we can use this new face of social media to our advantage, we need to avoid responding to blatant manipulation designed to provoke and instead focus on using social media to engage with specific PTB that make an attempt to take woman as fans seriously and to ignore the others who apparently subscribe to the belief there is no such thing as bad publicity. My favorite life lesson

[crystalusagi]

I actually think that there needs to be a clear barrier between fandom and the actors who play characters. Like...I find myself cringing internally when I hear of actors being approached with fanfic or fanart of an explicit nature--especially fanart because it's got their image in it. If it were me, I would be freaked out. Consequently I am not a huge fandom fanart that too closely resemble the actors. It's almost too close to rps for comfort?

But I understand how this could be tricky for live-action fandom, especially HP movies fandomers.

I think it's great that we're speaking up more about our preferences as a fandom but one should always be mindful and respectful.

[elise_wanderer]

It is indeed a very different world, though I don't know how much real influence public pressure has. I was one of the those who wrote to NBC in 1968 to plead for a third season of "Star Trek" (I actually wrote in 1967, as well), and I got a response to every one of my letters, form response though it was. (I also started a correspondence with an NBC employee that went on for a few exchanges until we ran out of things to talk about, me being a prepubescent teenager and all

[lemonade8]

I think that 50 Shades shocked the hell out of tptb and now they see fandoms as dollar signs and not so much as the freaky sideshow they did before. I would prefer they didn't, but that ship has already sailed.

[lordes]

Well, social media has become bigger, and that usually means that things get more visible... Personally I don't mind, it is why I changed my username though ;-) no need to have my real name on here anymore.