In his book Convergence Culture, Jenkins writes:
Fan digital film is to cinema what the punk DIY culture was to music. There, grassroots experimentation generated new sounds, new artists, new techniques, and new relations to consumers which have been pulled more and more into mainstream practice. (p. 136)
Although it is a fitting analogy, I still smirk when I think about the comparison of hardcore punk bands like The Ramones and The Sex Pistols being compared to Star Wars geeks.
Yet another similarity between these two groups is their "anti-establishment" ideals, evident in the lyrics of punk music and evident by fan film's disregard for copyright laws.
Source: Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.
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Then there's NerdCore... I'm probably misspelling it wrong. Ack.
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