Convergencc or Divergence? 1 Culture Convergence or Divergence? Spontaneous Art-making and Participatory Expression in the Private and Collective Lives of Youth.

With the advent of the Internet, distinctions have become blurred between those who create and those who consume art and culture. Adoring audiences—or fans—of certain popular commodities have come to be seen as central to the development of contemporary culture (Fiske, 1989). Insofar as fans imitate, manipulate, or improvise imagic or narrative commodities o