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
Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Mel Stanfill
This week’s “Go-To” piece of criticism comes to us from Mel Stanfill – currently the editor of Transformative Works and Cultures and author of books such as Fandom is Ugly (NYU 2024) and Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks
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
The activities of fan translators and distributors can be explained with the conceptual tools drawn from the existing literature (e.g. working consumers, consumers put to work, consumers co-creating with producers and consumers as a source of innovation). Yet, this paper
The Fandom Brand Guarantee
When a fan goes into a bookstore, they can point at many books where even just by looking at the cover, they can tell that the author or the work in particular came from fandom. It might be that while