(Almost) Everything I Need to Know About Media Literacy I Learned from Fandom

People say fans mindlessly stan their faves, no matter how problematic, but a fan can love something and critique it at the same time. In this panel, Carleton University’s Professor Benjamin Woo and members of the RoCCET Lab reveal how their experiences as young fans, otaku, and gamers laid the foundations for making them critical media consumers and continue to influence their research on comics, fan culture, and the entertainment industries.