![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recently, however, with the work of Jonathan Gray (2003, 2005, 20) and Cornell Sandvoss (2005), this approach has been questioned. Anne Gilbert (2012) notes that this scholarship often has a positive slant, with academics focussing on the potential for agency and self-enrichment inherent in audience activity. Studies such as Henry Jenkins’ (1992) Textual Poachers: Television, Fans and Participatory Culture and Camille Bacon-Smith's (1992) Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth examined fan communities and suggested that activities such as fan fiction and vidding were forms of resistance, enabling fans to reclaim ownership of popular culture and repair the damage done by corporations. "Audience studies has traditionally focussed on the fan as a means of understanding a text. ![]()
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