Author: Francesca

Matt Hills is a fan studies and media scholar of really wide breadth, expertise, and versatility, author of the classic fan studies text Fan Cultures (2002) as well as a number of subsequent monographs: How To Do Things With Cultural

In a recent study, Hungarian Hally fans also showed a connection to Cool Japan and C-ent.  “(…) there was a significant correlation between being a fan of K-culture and being a fan of Japanese or Chinese cultural content. (…) This

Today we’ll be kicking off a new, ongoing series – in between regularly scheduled posts by the Fanhackers team, we will offer guest posts by a number of prominent fan studies scholars.  We are inviting them to tell us about

A lot of the sites that post multimedia scholarship, videographic criticism, or scholarship pertaining to the moving image (TV/film/video etc) are also broadly interested in fandom and fanworks, primarily as a form of media criticism. The below sites are worth

Fanlore https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_PageFanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.  Sample page:Fanlore, “Femslash February”: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Femslash_February The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection at Texas A&Mhttps://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/collections/32fd52ea-ba8e-415c-bc04-b0d8cb48a0d5/searchThe Sandy Hereld Collection consists of thousands

Last post, I looked at academic journals that published scholarship in fan studies; today, we’ll take a tour of some fandom-specific book series at specific presses. Fandom & Culture Series, U Iowa –  https://uipress.uiowa.edu/series/fandom-cultureFandom & Culture seeks dynamic books that challenge

In the coming weeks, I’m going to do a bit of a tour around acafandom’s research outlets and platforms – by which I mean journals, presses, book series, archives: places where you might find work you’re interested in (or submit

Yet Tumblr was also a deeply flawed “blue hellscape” to many of its users, a technologically frustrating, often unsafe platform that did not always serve all its users well. As our authors testify, its most vulnerable groups faced the same

Something borrowed Literature has been in a plundered, fragmentary state for a long time. When I was thirteen I purchased an anthology of Beat writing. Immediately, and to my very great excitement, I discovered one William S. Burroughs, author of

Something old Coming together in a hotel ballroom with the rebels in the cause of a women’s art/communication system, the researcher feels a tiny thrill of danger. The community is open to anyone willing to participate, but closed to anyone