Supplemental Post 5 - Sabrina

 The Open TV introduction that we read for this week felt like the optimism I had been missing from some of the audience studies discussions in previous weeks. While it’s important to be critical of the media we’re creating and consuming, I think it was the Andrejevic Television Without Pity reading or something like that that made it feel like creating anything was just negatively contributing to capitalistic structures. In contrast, this reading felt like it was looking at the economic potential of indie and corporate television, but finding a positive lens to view indie content, though it does in some ways make this separate from the fan content discussed in the audience studies week. I found myself a bit uncertain of the line between indie and other sort of television at times during the reading – since the writer mentions indie producers feeling separate from amateur ones, but also conversely there are smaller shows on YouTube and such that still have commercial ties. But ultimately I enjoyed this reading for not making me feel horribly depressed at the prospect of creating things for the sake of enjoying them and possibly reaching people with them.