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Author: Nele Noppe

How fan studies researchers center whiteness as normative

Because of their status as minorities within Western media fandoms, nonwhite fans are seen [by fan studies researchers] to interrupt normative operations of such structures only in specific contexts when they make themselves visible. What I mean by this assertion

Nele Noppe 13/06/202013/06/2020 No Comments Read more

Podcast episode: Dr. Alfred L. Martin on ballet fandom, Tyler Perry, and cultures of race in fandoms and fan studies

“It’s a Thing!” is a podcast about fan studies hosted by Dr. Lori Morimoto. In this episode, Dr. Alfred L. Martin, assistant professor at the University of Iowa, discusses ballet fandom, Tyler Perry, and cultures of race in fandoms and

Nele Noppe 03/06/202003/06/2020 No Comments Read more

On Asian Americans and video game representation

I love first-person shooters such as BioShock, Halo 3, and the Half-Life series. But shooting aliens, cyborgs, or demons is one thing. Shooting at people who look like you, and who curse at you in your mother tongue, in a game that is supposed

Nele Noppe 27/05/202027/05/2020 No Comments Read more

On Bernie Sanders RPF and how fans participate in the branding of political candidates

Political real person fiction (RPF) builds on the public identities of politicians, using their media appearances, social media activity, and campaign platforms to provide the source texts, or “canon,” of the fiction. Similarly to writers of fan fiction who depict

Nele Noppe 15/04/202015/04/2020 No Comments Read more

On fansubbing and censorship in Chinese fandom

The practice of piracy has already become an integral part of China’s grassroots popular culture; not only is it taken for granted but it is also usually appreciated. Therefore criticism toward fansubbers and scanlators in China is minimal, if it

Nele Noppe 19/03/202019/03/2020 No Comments Read more

On fans reporting other fans to censors in China

However, the worst instance of censorship [of Chinese fanworks] is that of the ongoing third wave. This censorship campaign relies on a large-scale, omnipresent reporting system. Many reports come from informants inside the community, especially antifans of a certain genre

Nele Noppe 11/03/202011/03/2020 No Comments Read more

On the strengths of AO3’s tag wrangling compared to other tagging systems

Laissez-faire and rigid tagging systems both fail because they assume too much—that users can create order from a completely open system, or that a predefined taxonomy can encompass every kind of tag a person might ever want. When these assumptions

Nele Noppe 04/03/202004/03/2020 No Comments Read more

Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction

The exploration of identity is a common practice in fanfiction, and scholarship has consistently investigated this fan practice. Yet, despite the presence of disability and disabled characters in fanfiction, this aspect of identity exploration is only sparsely represented in scholarship.

Nele Noppe 19/02/202019/02/2020 No Comments Read more

On the industry focus in fan studies

If there are any trends in current fan studies, it clearly has to be the shift toward industry focus and the myriad ways to monetize fan labor. Both industry and academic events concentrate on the intersections and collaborations, sometimes at

Nele Noppe 29/01/202029/01/2020 No Comments Read more

On women’s voices in Jewish textual tradition and fanworks

Those of us who came of age fannishly in late twentieth-century Western media fandom grew up fannishly in a paradigm wherein fandom as practiced by boys and men tends to mean consuming, collecting, and indexing, whereas fandom as practiced by

Nele Noppe 16/01/202016/01/2020 No Comments Read more
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