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Fandom, mass culture and popular culture Entertainment has been known to bring pleasure to a lot of people around the world through television, radio or other elements of the media. Even though the positive characteristics of entertainment can be debated, negative aspects do exist. In the past century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with a large quantity of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass media audiences sees them as passive 'culture dopes', meaning that the people consume whatever media is placed in front of them with no thought on their part. William Jenkins opposed the views that state people as being cultural dopes who just absorb any media; he described the people as "consumers who also produce readers who also write,...

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