In this episode of BG Ideas, we are joined by two guests, Joe Macdonald and Garrett Scherff. Joe Macdonald is a Popular Culture Graduate Student at BGSU studying counterculture, the goth subculture, and the capacity of fandoms to evolve into spaces of cultural resistance. Garrett Scherff is an instructor in the Department of Popular Culture within the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at BGSU, interested in Tabletop Role Playing Games and cultural critique within those games. Joe and Garrett discuss Popular Culture and how fan communities are contributing to society. Specifically, Joe and Garrett discuss the different kinds of fan communities, how technology is helping/harming popular culture, and how both are reshaping the media. Want to read Garrett’s Thesis Gaming Against Adversity-Resistance in Tabletop Role-Playing? Click here to download it. Want to hear more from Joe? Check out his podcast, The Glorious Beard.

A transcript for this episode can be found here.