Recognising DemonFM as a Sub-Cultural Community

I’m reading Robert Prus’ Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Personalities as part of my research, and I wanted to share the following section in which he identifies the issues that are encountered either to a lesser or a greater extent when subcultural groups are engaged in a shared experience or practice.

“The following notions are particularly pertinent to the emergence and development of subcultures:

• Anticipating the value of collective enterprise
• Involving others in the venture (recruitment, screening, minimising reservations).
• Justifying the group (developing perspectives, moral viewpoints).
• Celebrating the venture (witnessing, recognising, emphasising – within the group).
• Defining the team (membership criteria, positions, responsibilities).
• Establishing communication forums (interpersonal, media).
• Pursuing resources for the group.
• Arranging member assemblies (encounters, practices).
• Providing instruction for members (perspectives, techniques).
• Monitoring members.
• Accessing member performances.
• Motivating and disciplining members.
• Rejecting and reinstating members.
• Facing internal upheaval (splintering, factions, challenges from within).
• Facing generalised loss of interest.
• Dealing with dissolution.
• Attempting to revitalise cooperative ventures” (p.72).
I thought this was quite a comprehensive list of issues that are of potential importance to understanding how a subcultural community succeeds or fails, so what I want to do is to build a set of questions around the idea that DemonFM is a subcultural experience that depends on a range of people coming together and making sense of their experience through a range of techniques. The ultimate aim is to ask on what basis these volunteers find the experience of producing media in a voluntary capacity like this to be meaningful.