Something I read...

Sorry to bore you!
While in the library the other day (im studying for my masters) I stumbled across a chapter about how fans engage with their favourite book or TV show.
It said:

"The fans' response typically involves not simply fascination or adoration but also frustration and antagonism, and it is the combination of the two responses which motivates their active engagement with the media. Because popular narratives often fail to satisfy, fans must struggle with them, try to articulate to themselves and others unrealized possibilities within the original works" ... "Fans cease to be simply an audience for popular texts; instead, they become active participants in the construction and circulation of textual meanings..."

I was just wondering if anyone can relate to this and just your general thoughts on it. Nothing serious, I was just intrigued by it!

All entirely correct.

Yes, I would say that's fair.

Odd question, but I recognise the quote. Is it from Sandvoss's Fans?.

Reminds of a yarn by Stephen King where he went to give a lecture to some students. One of whom had done a 500 page disertation on Children of the Corn and how it was complex narrative about Vietnam.
The corn, the psychotic children all redolent with deep meaning.

Except he just wrote a short story about nutty kids living in some corn.