Fandom and a general audience (part 2)

[solaristist]

I was teaching a seminar this week along with one of my senior colleagues whose course it is. At the end of his lecture on media theory (which was a whistle-stop tour from Adorno to Jenkins) he very briefly mentioned fan vids - it was a one sentence comment about Star Trek slash (although he didn't call it that). Unfortunately, he presented it in

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[absolutedestiny]

I remember during the first 24/7 diy video workshop there was a big showcase of all kinds of fan media from political remix, youtube cats, machinima to amvs and fan vidding. The reaction to Killa's famous 'Closer' vid (ST:TOS, K/S) was mostly laughter and yet at the same conference when Francesca Coppa gave her excellent talk on the history of vidding with plenty of slashy examples (Closer included IIRC) the reaction was totally different - with the right context there was a good understanding of where the vid was coming from and a lot of very insightful discussions happened as a result

[solaristist]

Thanks for the comment absolutedestiny. No need to apologies - your thoughts struck me as spot on