Fandom

As we discussed Fandom in class, I was surprised that there were so many people who were effected so much by characters on a show or movie. I never thought that something so drastic could have not just an effect on one person but on an entire community. When we watched the video about the Trekkies it was interesting to see how much each one was shaped in their own way and what it meant to them to be apart of the conventions with each other. However this was not the most shocking part to me throughout Alyssa's lecture. The idea that fandom came out of indrustrialization and modernization were very interesting to me. I would have expected the fandom to come out of something such as loneliness or just infatuation. We allow everything around us to affect us in more than one way. Indrustrialization was something that changed our country as a whole and it also did individually. It is just another example how some type of mass media shaped us into changing not us into shaping what happens in mass media.