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extempore ([personal profile] extempore) wrote in [community profile] fanlore 2011-05-28 07:08 pm (UTC)

At least in the area of media studies, the term "media/medium" is still debated and there is no One True Definition. I suspect, it's the same in fandom.

To me, a media fandom centers around what offen falls colloquially under "multimedia": TV, computer, movie, radio, game consoles etc. Thus, any fandom deriving from a source seen/heard/played on these machines is, in my view of things, a media fandom. Comics, manga, manwha and so on are a bit of a hybrid in this system, as they often are closely tied to a TV show.

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