See Schedule of Classes for current section offerings. Topics deal with new media and related issues.

Fan studies grew out of scholarship on reception (the role of the reader/viewer/user in determining the meanings of media texts). Piracy studies emerged from scholarship on distribution (the operations of systems and technologies of media dissemination). The two fields have not often intersected, but in this seminar, we will ask how fandom and piracy intersect and overlap, especially for people of color, LGBTQIA people, and women. We will investigate how fandom and piracy provide valuable lenses on a range of contemporary phenomena and issues, such as radical care, performances of selfhood, inequities of information access, intergenerational conflicts, and collective vs. individual responsibility.

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