Abstract
In this paper, we offer a non-typical snapshot of interaction from the field of Reality TV fandom to explore new ways of conceiving the relationship between empathic response, ethical awareness and emergent possibilities for learning as conditioned by online participatory cultures. We provide a limit-case analysis of an instance of situated ethical action among members of the fan forum Television Without Pity (TWoP) to explore the context-sensitive and unpredictable nature of learning in fan communities characterized by collective (no one knows everything), participatory (everybody knows something), and emergent (arising in the interactions between the knower and the world-to-be-known) forms of knowledge. We suggest that learning in the context of this participatory fan culture involves an ongoing willingness to respond to triggers, make discernments and articulate perspectives within a virtually real community of others.
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