Estudis de recepció i consum culturalComunitats interpretatives i fans. El cas de Gran Hermano.

Abstract

This work applies the methodological tools of the Cultural Studies for investigating the television consumption and its reception. The purpose of the research is to investigate the communicative contexts and processes of resignification of two groups of audiences confronted by the meaning/sense (social and cultural) of the second edition of Big Brother: on the one hand the fans of the program who meet in internet and, of the other one, an association of viewers. In this way, the study that I present samples the characteristics and the evolution that has experienced the study of the communication from the reception, mainly in the Anglo-Saxon area. The contributions of David Morley or Janice Radway, among others, bring up the possibilities, the potentiality and, consequently, the need of the study of the communicative processes from the consumption that the majorities carry out. The consumption and the resignification that the two investigated groups make of Big Brother exemplifies clearly how the closure of the meaning of a text is negotiated by groups placed in particular sectors of the structure from the systems of meaning|sense and fashions of expression elaborated socially. The meaning of a text has to do with the introduced codes, but also with the codes that different sectors of the audience live with in. There is a fight for the definition of the public space, a fight about the rules of representation and visibility, a dispute about the impossibility/possibility of social legitimise of the cultural experience itself.