Henry Jenkins discussed the actions that fandoms take to perform their enjoyment of their favorite mediated content. The best example of a fandom that performs passionately their enjoy of an intellectual property are Star Wars fans.

Jenkins’ Five Levels of Fandom Activity

Henry Jenkins (1992) wrote about in his foundational work “Textual Poachers: Television Fan & Participatory Culture" about five levels of activity that fandoms traditional engage in when interacting with core texts essential to their favorite shows, books, movies, or other artifacts of popular culture. Fans of their content will begin...

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