We’re trying out a new kind of post: a weekly list of new/recent fan studies research that’s just been added to the Fan Studies Bibliography. Works are divided into things that are open access (=immediately readable for anyone) and not open access (=behind a paywall or not yet public). 

If we missed anything or made a mistake, submit a correction and we’ll fix it in next week’s edition. Comments and suggestions about this new posting format are also very welcome. Happy reading!


Open access

Castellano, Mayka, Melina Meimaridis, and Marcelo Alves dos Santos Junior. “Game of Spoilers: Adapted Works and Fan Consumption Disputes in Brazil.” Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, no. 9 (2017). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melina_Meimaridis/publication/316859004_Game_of_Spoilers_Adapted_Works_and_Fan_Consumption_Disputes_in_Brazil/links/59147cbc0f7e9b70f49c1b33/Game-of-Spoilers-Adapted-Works-and-Fan-Consumption-Disputes-in-Brazil.pdf.

Close, Samantha. “Moon Prism Power!: Censorship as Adaptation in the Case of Sailor Moon.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/16.pdf.

Jøn, A. Asbjørn. “Green Jesus of Azeroth: Hero Myths and Fan Based Perceptions of Similarities Between Jesus of Nazareth and the World of Warcraft’s ‘Thrall’” Cultural Analysis 15 (2017): 82–106. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume15_2/pdf/Jon.pdf

Jones, Abigail Leigh. “Rewriting the Story: Videogames within the Post-Gamergate Society.” University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/60355.

McLelland, Mark. “Governmentality and Fan Resistance in the Japan Pop Culture Sphere.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/13.pdf.

Miller, Lucy. “Access and the Construction of Fan Identity: Industry Images of Anime Fandom.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/4.pdf.

Reinhard, CarrieLynn D., and Pooky Amsterdam. “A Community of Televised Avatars: Interactivities in Virtual World Television Promoting and Acknowledging Participatory Communities.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/5.pdf.

Saito, Asako P. “Moe and Internet Memes: The Resistance and Accommodation of Japanese Popular Culture in China.” Cultural Studies Review 23, no. 1 (2017): 136–50. http://epress-dev.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/5499

Sapach, Sonja Christina. “Gotta Catch Em’All: The Compelling Act of Creature Collection in Pokemon, Ni No Kuni, Shin Megami Tensei, and World of Warcraft.” The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association 10, no. 16 (2017). http://journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/article/viewArticle/171.

Turner, Simon. “District Thailand: Identification, Spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/6.pdf.

Völcker, Matthias. “‘Spoiler⁉ I’m Completely Painless, I Read Everything’: Fans and Spoilers–results of a Mixed Method Study.” Participations 14, no. 1 (2017). http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/9.pdf.

Waysdorf, Abby, and Stijn Reijnders. “The Role of Imagination in the Film Tourist Experience: The Case of Game of Thrones,” 2017. http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/10.pdf.


Not open access

Dezuanni, Michael, and Joanne O’Mara. “Impassioned Learning and Minecraft.” In Serious Play: Literacy, Learning and Digital Games, 2017. https://books.google.be/books?hl=en&lr=&id=oaPODgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT47&ots=xYaTtqpvX9&sig=3PauDoLxigPj4oFCi1X4WSQENq4.

Garde-Hansen, Joanne, and Matt Hills. “Fandom’s Paratextual Memory : Remembering, Reconstructing, and Repatriating ‘lost’ Doctor Who.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 34, no. 2 (March 16, 2017): 158–67.

Gu, Jingyi. “Celebrating and Discussing the Queerly Masculine: Hollywood Superheroes Reimagined in Fan Videos on Chinese Barrage Video Websites.” Georgetown University, 2017. http://search.proquest.com/openview/918c9cc1ee630f76e60f66061214fc09/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

Guerrero-Pico, Mar. “#Fringe, Audiences and Fan Labor: Twitter Activism to Save a TV Show From Cancellation.” International Journal of Communication 11, no. 0 (May 12, 2017): 22.

Lee, SoJung, HakJun Song, Choong-Ki Lee, and James F. Petrick. “An Integrated Model of Pop Culture Fans’ Travel Decision-Making Processes.” Journal of Travel Research, May 11, 2017, 47287517708619. doi:10.1177/0047287517708619.

Van den Bulck, Hilde, and Anders Olof Larsson. “‘There’s a Starman Waiting in the Sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter.” Convergence, May 18, 2017, 1354856517709670. doi:10.1177/1354856517709670.

朱琍瑩. “A Comparative Study on Fair Use of the Fan Film in Taiwan and USA 美國與臺灣就迷電影與合理使用之比較研究.” 中興大學法律學系科技法律碩士班學位論文, 2017, 1–120.

New fan studies research – May 23, 2017
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