Returning to Price’s examination of fannish information behaviours, we are introduced to four related areas that this research can contribute to. One of them being education, which is, in a sense, a negotiation of different information behaviours in as much as learning is acquiring new information and organising and using that information in certain ways.
Price brings examples from the scholarship of more explicit learning relationships in fandom: that of creative writing – and game modding mentors.
However, as we have already addressed the unique information behaviours of fandom, these behaviours are also learned in some way. This less explicit and formalized learning of less easily defined skills or information defying easy categorization might be more telling about fandom.
Price, Ludovica. 2017. “Serious Leisure in the Digital World: Exploring the Information Behaviour of Fan Communities.” PhD diss., City University of London. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/19090
Author: Szabo Dorottya