Article: Consumers and Creators

Article: Alana Kumbier - Consumers and Creators

This article is a fantastic description of life as a 'fangurl' for Buffy. I laughed out loud at parts because I have done some of the things she talks about (begging a workmate while we were living in the UK to come and watch episodes of Season 6 with him; sitting around the lounge at 10:45 waiting for channel seven to finally get around to showing Babylon 5 (sometimes an hour and a half later) with every member of our share-house of 7, including my 9 year old brother).

But it's also good at illustrating the difference between a fans' definition of what it means to be a fan and what the producers (or at least the companies that own the material) define a fan to be.