Online
participatory culture
In
an age where having communication between media companies and the mass audience
is now as simple as a tweet or post away. Mass audiences are taking to the
internet to demand answers or making sure that companies know what they want.
As TV shows and movies integrated through many different Medias in order to
pull in a larger audience. For shows with a fandom it is important to
cultivating the fanbase and using their input to develop ideas to provide a
better viewing experience for the audience.
There are different types of fandoms. Each based on a certain model
Based on how involved the fans are in the fandom and how they operate.
To
fully understand online participatory culture you have to look at online
migration patterns of the 90’s and 00’s. Fandom’s activates online where being
chopped and changes with every new development of the World Wide Web. Early
fandom’s activity online was keep on private forums or open message boards
where waves of new fans talk with old fans. In the days before the internet
fandoms would be confined into small groups. Only making conversation trough
fan letters published in fanzines and Making trips once or twice a year to
convention. The only place at the time where all of the information fans wanted
could be found with ease. With the internet came the free flow of
information. The rise of the internet
lend to fans becoming a more active members in the fandom producing fan
material and uploading online or publishing, be it fan art, fan music and fan
movies. But older fans are still primarily active offline preferring to go to
the conventions and debate with a panel of their peers then chat about it on a
message board. In the 90’s it was stated that fans that operate only online are
not real fans because they are not fully interacting with the community just
picking and choosing.
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