Theories
Fandom
Theorists
Online Audiences
Potpourri
100

When audiences allow intrusive state surveillance of their online activity of their own accord, it creates?

The Super Panopticon

100

Fans who create music or artwork about a media text are doing what?

Filking

100

Who theorized the panopticon?

Foucault

100

A person or fan who creates media content beyond an original media text is called:

A Petty Producer
100

Foucault's theory of the panopticon was based what type of building?

A prison

200

The Super Bowl would best be described as a:

Media Event

200

If you write a fan fiction story where you alter the emotional/relational connections between characters in a canon, it's called what?

Slash Writing

200

Who theorized lateral-surveillance?

Andrejevic

200

According to Lainer, the use of advertising as a business model for the internet has produced:

Behavior Modification Empires

200

What is the name for the agreement made between companies and users in order to post content to web applications?

End Use License Agreement

300

When a media text takes multiple liberties with its canon, often re-writing and re-framing previous aspects of a media narrative, this is called:

Narrative Fluidity

300

Taking a trip to Hobbiton would be a kind of:

Media Pilgrimage

300

Who theorizes participatory fan culture?

Jenkins

300

Making your relationship official on social media would best be described as:

An (Inter)personal Media Ritual

300

The ability of media content to be displayed on a number of different devices is called:

Convergence

400

When a fan takes part of a text and pairs it with other cultural material to create a new text, deCerteau would call this practice:

Textual Poaching

400

A group of fans who agree upon a negotiated set of rules regarding a particular fandom is called what?

An Interpretive Community
400

Who theorized how fans participate in media events?

Dayan & Katz

400

Video games where there are many choices as to how to play the game, whether or not intended by the creators, have high levels of what?

Digital Affordances

400

A movie trailer would be best defined as what type of media?

Paratext

500
When audiences connect their economic, social and cultural capital to media products (as in collecting), Bourdieu terms this:

Habitus

500

What was the term used in the Firefly documentary to describe the fan organization and distribution of publicity on the Internet to try to get the show re-instated?

Gureilla Marketing

500

Who theorized time space distanciation?

Giddens

500

What are the four tenets of big data that make it conducive for audience analysis?

•Exhaustive in scope

•Fine-detailed

•Relational

•Flexible

500

Name 3 of the 5 categories of audience research that should drive new audience scholarship into 2030?

•Critical literacies for intrusive, individualized and connected technological experiences.

•Political aspects of audiences’ reactions to intrusive technologies and modes of resistance.

•Renew reading, viewing, listening and interpreting media as central to audiences

•Investigate commercial interests in audiences’ attention, data and productive work.

•Engage diverse, global contexts that produce localized experiences of media

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