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Seminar: The civic imagination: Resistance, contestation and activism in participatory culture

Professor Henry Jenkins is giving a keynote presentation.

Frames of Fandom: From Fan Public to Fan Activism
How might we deploy the ever-expanding body of Fandom Studies scholarship to revitalize debates around the nature of the public sphere and the potential of democracy? How does the collective concept of fandom align with classic concepts of publics and counterpublics or imagined communities? Can we speak of a public sphere of the imagination?  Tapping a broad range of examples (from the empathetic publics surrounding Steven Universe to the feminist debates around Barbie in China, from the Q-Anon conspiracy theories in the United States to the Lightstick revolution in Korea or the use of the One Piece Straw hat pirate flag as an oppositional symbol in Indonesia), this talk explores how the kinds of public discourse that emerges within fandom may spill over into activism for social change. This talk draws on ideas being developed in conjunection with Robert Kozinets for the Frames of Fandom book series.
 
Henry Jenkins is Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, Education, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of more than twenty five books, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activists, and most recently, Fandom as Subculture.

The full program for the seminar:

09.45-10.00 Welcome. Coffee and tea.  

Public lecture
10.00-11.00 Henry Jenkins: Frames of Fandom: From Fan Public to Fan Activism (see abstract here)

Session 1: Gender activism 
11.00-11.30 Mogens Olesen: Breaking barriers with a football: The activist TikTok narratives of Maymi Asgari.
11.30-12.00 Guilherme Giolo Rego: Femininity Courses as Reactionary Self-Help on Instagram

12.00-13.00 LUNCH 

Session 2: Children and young people navigating online threats and conflict
13.00-13.30 Katrine Krogh Pedersen: Memetic Sensemaking in Adolescent Online Ecosystems Lived Imaginations of Digital Rights
13.30-14.00 Line Nybro Petersen: The Fanization of Violent Extremism

14.00-14.15 Coffee break

Session 3: The civic imagination and celebrity 
14.15-14.45 Helle Kannik Haastrup: The Celebrity Deepfake as Memetic Media Genre: AI videos, star images and intertextuality 
14.45-15.15 Anne Jerslev og Nete N酶rgaard Kristensen: 鈥業 love it when a plan comes together鈥�. User reactions to J.K. Rowling鈥檚 gloating over the UK Supreme Court鈥檚 2025 ruling on sex and gender

15.15-15.30 Closing remarks

Location at Copenhagen University: room 4A. 1.60.
It is free to participate but registration is required.
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