De Kosnik’s Rogue Archive have been referred to before in this post, this post, this post and this post and now I am making it another one because rogue is a word that I like to come back to in
Internet archiving is unique in as much as it inherently creates its own set of metadata. When collecting a physical document, it contains a set of information, both physical and contextual that could help, for example dating it. Another aspect
So Tightly Linked
Through events like the annual Eaton Conference, the collection seeks to continue opening access by a combination of mixed public and scholarly activities in order to simultaneously foster fan enthusiasm and increase academic consideration, not least because they are often
No Straight Story
I like serial storytelling; television, podcasts, longfics that we read one chapter a time for its ability to refer back to itself and weave several threads. These narratives would be overly pressured in the form of cinema, theater, the like.
While print fan fiction does exist by way of fanzines, print-on-demand services, and fanbinding (the practice of printing out and binding fan fiction DIY-style), the vast majority of fan fiction is only found in digital formats. However, some participants indicated
Fiction and Fragmented Non-Fiction
This post touched on how the ephemera of fandom could be considered for archiving. This is elaborated by scholars in fandom studies as a direct result of how transformative works and cultures are already structured. Those who enter a fandom
On fanwork’s fleeting nature
Last time, in this post, we talked about fanwork’s immortality. To discuss its fleeting nature is not to discount that argument. Fanworks are no mayflowers, blooming once and then nevermore. Maybe they are mirages, light reflecting back in the most
On fanwork’s immortality
One of the earliest paper on the information behaviour of fans points to the ephemerality of fanworks as why librarians are (yet) uninterested in cataloging them. The do-it yourself image of this information has also been a factor contributing to
Transformative and participatory information behaviours – for starters
The premise of fandom studies is that fannish works and cultures are distinctive. So, in this case, fannish information behaviours are distinctive. One way, specifically that they are distinctive is that fanworks, in both physical and digital form, are seen
This time, it’s about information behaviours: for the fans, by the fans
The clickbait title of this post would have been: gatekeeping in fandom. Fandom’s information behaviour is of much interest to scholars as (…) cult media fans are seen to be an information-intensive group in many respects, with a variety of