...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
Interpretation
Fan fiction serves as a cultural response to the commercialization of contemporary myths by allowing people to engage and create their own narratives.
This quote highlights the idea that in a society where major narratives and contemporary myths are often controlled by corporations, fan fiction emerges as a form of cultural expression that enables individuals to reclaim these myths. By crafting their own stories, fans repair the disconnect caused by corporate ownership and create a communal space for storytelling and creativity, emphasizing the importance of shared cultural ownership over mass-produced narratives.
In practice
Using this quote at a fan fiction convention to highlight the importance of community and creativity.
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then new consumers are migratory, showing a declining loyalty to networks or media. If old consumers were isolated individuals, then new consumers are more socially connected. If the work of media consumers was once silent and invisible, then new consumers are now noisy and public.
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.
I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.
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