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Quick summary in black: Fandom refers to the social structures and cultural practices created by the most passionately engaged consumers of mass media properties Participatory culture refers more broadly to any kind of cultural production which starts at the grassroots level and which is open to broad participation Web 2.0 is a business model that sustains many web-based projects that rely on principles such as user-creation and moderation, social networking, and "crowdsourcing." Lesson: Henry Jenkins is an influential Media theorist, who is interested in Media in the online world, or Media 2.0.  Since the emergence of the internet as a participatory, interactive medium, there has been a great deal of writing about how this has transformed audiences, institutions and the nature of media products.  Jenkins looks at many areas, but for this topic, his 1992 1992 book Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture is particularly important. Web 2.0...

The black panther  is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books  published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in  Fantastic Four  #52 (July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Summary-After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from factions within his own country. When two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must team up with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje, Wakandan special forces, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war . The Black Panther was very successful at its launch as  the society feels as though most American tv series a...

The walt Disney company:  Founded by walt and his brother in 1923 started by making short animations to be shown animations to be shown as part of a cinema programme. 1928 steamboat willie (1st mickey mouse) 1932- first colour film released  'Flowers and Trees' 3 academy awards by 1934 1937 snow white and the seven dwarfs (first feature length animation) distributed by RKO. Snow white:  Premiere December 1937 Released in 2 cinemas (New York and Miami) January 1938 General Release February 1938 Box Office $7 million Re-released: 1944, 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1983, 1987 and 1993 Total Box Office: $180 million (about $1 Billion when adjusted for inflation) turning point in his career first featured soundtrack- music by frank churchill, paul smith and Leigh harline. first movie with merchandise Running time 83 minutes Disney timeline: 1950 - First ‘live action’ films start 1950 - Starts working in...

Movie: Black panther. Summary and background information: black panther is a 2018 American superhero film  based on the Marvel Comics c haracter of the same name , produced by marvel studios  and distributed by Walt disney studios marvel pictures;  it is  t he eighteenth film  in the marvel cinematic universe  (MCU). The film is directed by ryan coogler  from a screenplay by him and Joe Robert Cole, and stars  Chadwick Boseman  as T'Challa / Black Panther, alongside  Michael B. Jordan ,  Lupita Nyong'o ,  Danai Gurira ,  Martin Freeman ,  Daniel Kaluuya ,  Letitia Wright ,  Winston Duke ,  Angela Bassett ,  Forest Whitaker , and  Andy Serkis . In black panther,  T'Challa returns home as king of  Wakanda  but finds his sovereignty challenged by a long-time adversary in a conflict that has global consequences. Cover: Production Companies: Marvel studios walt disney ...

1.  According to the writer, why might autistic children such as his son, be attracted to Minecraft? Through Minecraft, autistic children could learn easy and basic skills, that could expand their wider knowledge. 2. Which feature are included in the education version of Minecraft and how useful do you think they might be as an educational tool? Education version of Minecraft allows teachers to set up classroom servers, where students can build scale models of their own towns, this means they can learn about geography, agriculture, architecture and physics. It is very educational. 3. Why does Bergensten suggest, have copycat versions of Minecraft been less successful? The copycat versions have been looking for ways to expand on what the game offers, and some have fared well, but nothing was close to Mojang's vision. The copycat versions tended to have added a lot of visual information to the textures, which is what makes it less successful as Minecraft is more ...

most watched- least watched: Bollywood Nollywood Hollywood The word Hollywood is a Metonym a word , name or expression used as a substitute for something else which it is closely associated- for example; Washington is a a Mtonymfor US government. Words that associate with Hollywood: Celebs Movies Musicals Red carpet Glamore Theatre Walk of fame form of expression Show business Stars  Dressing rooms Big budgets Makeovers Premiers American Imperialism  Dominating Culture Hollywood is a place in southern california where many of the first major film studios were set up around 100 years ago. Film making is now a global enterprise, but hollywood is still a synonym for American film making. How did hollywood become so powerful? Film was invented in france but tye hollywood studios started to become all powerful by the 1920s The studios built up their power by following what is called a 'fordist' economic model and establishing a syst...