Reflection
After reading through Julie Lindquist's A Place to Stand, I became particularly engaged in a clear and informative commentary on thoughts/ideas about culture. What it is. What it means. After calling for a lens or way of looking at culture, Lindquist moves on to explain how she approaches class. She clarifies that class must be understood as a function of culture, and culture of class in order for her project (an ethnography of working-class rhetoric) to sustain.
In light of the knowledge that this text serves as a "mentor" text for the rhetorical analysis or inquiry project, I am beginning to consider questions which require an examination of fandom culture.
What are fans saying?
What "stories" or assemblages of texts build fandom culture?
What relationship does fandom culture have with class?
What tensions are present? (producer/consumer v. creator/contributor)
What norms/established patterns have been created?
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