Participatory culture

A culture in which people actively create, share, and respond to media and cultural works. It contrasts with models that treat audiences primarily as passive consumers.

Fandom: A community of people who share enthusiasm for a cultural work, person, or genre. Fandoms often turn appreciation into creative work, discussion, and collective interpretation.
Spreadable media: Media content designed or adapted to circulate through sharing across networks. Sharing lets participants extend a work’s reach beyond its original channels.
Henry Jenkins: An American media scholar known for research on fandom, convergence, and participatory culture. His scholarship helped define and popularize the concept.
Mass media: Communication systems that distribute content from centralized producers to large audiences. Its broadcast model concentrates production more than participatory culture does.
User-generated content: Media or other material created by users rather than professional producers. It is a visible form of audience members becoming cultural producers.
Fan fiction: Fiction written by fans that reuses characters, settings, or worlds from existing works. It makes audience members' creative responses concrete and sustained.
Textual poaching: A framework describing how audiences appropriate and reinterpret material from popular culture. It anticipated the idea that audiences actively make meaning from media.
Cultural industry: The industrial production and distribution of cultural goods for mass consumption. It foregrounds commercial institutions rather than audience-led creation.
Remix culture: A culture that creates new works by reusing and recombining existing material. Remixing shows how participants build on shared cultural material.
Remix: A new work made by rearranging or transforming material from existing works. Remix turns circulation into further creation.

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