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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: SOC3050 Module Title: FANS: EMOTION AND AFFECT IN A MEDIATED WORLD
Module Provider: Sociology Short Name: SOC3050
Level: HE3 Module Co-ordinator: SANDVOSS C Dr (Sociology)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability
Semester 1
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 
Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

One 4000 word essay

 

100

 

Qualifying Condition(s) 

 

A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module.

 
Module Overview
Fans are not only prominent and highly visible aspects of popular culture, they have also attracted increasing academic attention over the past decade. In the particular intensity of their media consumption, fans highlight and illustrate wider aspects of the relationship between media and audiences. Studying fans thus means to study social subjects interacting with each other through language and discourse as well as with themselves. Building on theories of media audiences and identity, the module hence adopts sociological, psychological and psychoanalytical perspectives to the relationship between audiences and (mass) mediated texts.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None
Module Aims
The module aims to explore the relationship between media consumers and media texts as well as the intra-personal and inter-personal consequences arising out of fandom. In doing so, the module analyses fandom across different genres and media such as music, sport, television, and cinema.
Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:

 

·         Demonstrate an understanding of a wide range of theoretical questions concerning fan practices and motivations.

 

·         Critically evaluate different approaches to the study of audiences and fans.

 

·         Analyse the social, cultural and economic premises and consequences of fandom across different texts and the contexts.

 

·         Develop and defend a theoretical position with regard to questions of fandom in written form.

 
Module Content
  • Freudian psychonalysis and media audiences

     

  • Fan objects and object relations theory

     

  • Narcissism and fandom

     

  • Emotion and reader – text interfaces

     

  • Critical Theory and affective media consumption
Methods of Teaching/Learning

11 hours of lectures and 11 hours of seminars

Weekly reading and seminar preparation
Selected Texts/Journals

Reading

 

Students are required to complement lecture and seminar attendance with substantial weekly reading.

 

 

Sandvoss, C. (2005) Fans: The Mirror of Consumption, Cambridge: Polity Press. 

Abercrombie, N. and Longhurst, B. (1998) Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination, London: Sage. 

Gray, J., Sandvoss, C. and Harrington, C.L. (2007) Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York: New York University Press.

Hills, M. (2002) Fan Cultures, London Routledge. 

Jenkins, H. (1992) Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge, New York.

Jenkins, H. (2006) Fans, bloggers, and gamers: exploring participatory culture, New York: New York University Press.
 

 

Thompson, J. B. (1995). The Media and Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, Chapter 7.

 
Last Updated
April 2011