Meme's Trolls and Fandoms Final Review

Simply Sara

youtube home cookign channel, casual filming style, focus on everyday meals, informal conversation

hominess

a feeling that is rootes in, familiarity ordinariness modesty comfort, warmth, feeling of sitting with a friend and learning a recipe

simply saras performance elements

stage patterns, relaxed taljing, storytelling while cooking, permeable frame, audience feels like participants not viewers

habitus

internalized sense of how to behave, shaped by culture, economic background, influences preferences

cultural capital

non-economic assets that signal social class (posture, accent, belongings, education)

cultural capital in cooking

elite cultural: gourmet ingredients, technical skills, simply saras cultural capital, stretching ingredients, practical skill, comfort foods

folkloresque

media that evokes folklore, tradition, or “folk culutre”without necesarily being in folklore itself

antimodern media

cottage core, antimodern media expreses nostalgia for the past, rejection of the modern industrial life, longing for simplicity and nature common themes include rural life, craft taditions, fantasy world, pre industrial aesthetics

cottage core

internet baked aesthtic that romantizes rural life, simplicity, and nature centered living

cottage core remsembles

small cottages, gardening, flowers and nature, handmade crafts represents an idealized rural past

escaping modernity

antimodern media often responds to technological overload, urban alienation, fast paces digital life. fantasy and rural nostalgia becomign coping mechanisms for modern anxitieis

paradox

digital media produces antimodern nostaglia

modern techolgy helpes create visions of a pre modern world

fan and fandoms

excessive enthusiasm, loss of reason and rational thought, development of the concept of fan

fan

any faithful devottee of sports or commercial entertainment

textual poaching

refers to the active, sometimes subversive ways fans appropriate mass media texts to create their own cultural meanings

conclusions to poaching and nomadism

pop culutre is negotiated between producers and consumers, meaning of popular texts largely controlled by authors/owners, poaching allows consumers to gain control over the meaning of the texts

fanfic

fan-created ficition utilizing characters, settings, and plots poached from popular cultural texts

fanzine

DIY magazines, often handmade, photocopied and distributed through the mail often for no profit

slashfic

fanfic focusing on character relationships and pairings either non-existent or underemphasized in popular cultural texts, shipping same sex pairings, things that arent explicitily in the show

kirk and spock

a common freinshup, science fiction allowed for tragnressive ideas, fanzines conventions and fanfic

poach

fans can express themselves through pop culutral texts, fans manipulate fan pop culutre to reflect issues and concerns that are central to their own lives, blurs distincitons between producers and consumers

bronies

young adults that are fans of my little pony

enderdragon

introduced as their final boss, met with lukewarm reception, fans already created their own main villian herobrine

herobrine

mysterious white eyed character in minecraft, destorys other players creations and is not coded into game by creators

legends

narratives about strange or uncanny events that are potentially true observation, the enactment of a legend

ostentation

the enactment of a legend, it lets us test boundaries of reality and legends

mod

a fan made alteration of a game

ludology

the style of games and gamers

magic circle

the “sealed frame” the bounds the game experience, it seperates game from not game or play frame from everyday reality

geek girls

documentary depicting marginalization and hate in gaming communitities, focuses on experience of women in male dominated fandoms

otaku

person with an intense level of fandom

memorialization online

scott simor, NPR reported live tweets about his mothers death

shows three cultural shifts

• validates use of social media to document difficult events

• reveals the extent to which social media verifies the importance of an event

• allows death to intercept life in real time through social media

folk commemoration spontaneious shrine

memorial that appears suddenly and anonylmously at the site of a tragic event

folk commemoration assemblage

the materials that accrue at the site of a spontaneous shrine including flowers, letters and stuffed animals

digital afterlife

QR codes on tombstones, programs like 2wai to keep you in contact with the dead ones, or social media after death

the film be right back

“bring back someone”, memory vs presence, represenation vs reality, does AI help or prolong grief

language

is the basis for human recognition of cognition

turing test

measure of a machines ability to sucessfully mimic human thought

LLMs

process data, isolating units of meaning and recognizing patterns in syntax, creating “context” to generate responses, chat gpt, patterns matter more then meaning

generative

the capacity to combine features of two seperate concepts to from something new

bronyspeak

distinctive folk speech based on traditional worldplay amoung bronies

• brony- a male fan of my little pony

• any pony- anyone

• blank flank- someone new to the fandom

two emerging social media rituals of commemoration

• posting a photo of deceased during initial mourning period then at anniversaries

• 2. first person communication with the deceased