This November, we continue to await your submissions to our Fandom Friendships zine. We also introduce our first collaboration event with Fanlore: the Fandom Friendships Challenge! From November 11th to 24th, join us and Fanlore in adding to content to
Fannish proximity across time and space
Sedgwick wrote on the transformative potential of queer reading practices in ways that, to me, also describe fannish modes of attachment: “I think that for many of us in childhood the ability to attach intently to a few cultural objects,
How early soap opera fans used letters to engage with creators and build community
Internet fan studies foregrounds the immersion of activities such as shipping and community building into a spaceless and timeless virtual life, as well as the importance of social media in closing the gulf between fan and creator. My work here
Guest post: Nicolle Lamerichs on shipping, cosplay and affect
You might remember that last week we posted a quote by Nicolle Lamerichs from Creative Business (HU Utrecht) from her conversation on the state of fan studies. Because we are super clever and on the ball (or possibly through sheer
Fandom studies should indeed pay more attention to affect, both positive and negative. Affect indeed is highly individual, and this individuality poses methodological challenges. To research what is deeply private and interior is difficult, and qualitative methods do not entirely
HANNIBAL: A Fanvid | [in]Transition
HANNIBAL: A Fanvid | [in]Transition tea-and-liminality: Some of you saw this vid(eo essay) when I circulated it in an earlier version last spring, but now I’m happy to say it’s found its final form in the latest issue of the
[QUOTE] From Wilson, Anna. 2016. “The Role of Affect in Fan Fiction.” In “The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work,” edited by Ika Willis, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 21.http://ift.tt/2c6cCRl. (via wildehacked)
Fan fiction often demonstrates a high level of knowledge of and insight into its source texts (or canons, in fan fiction vocabulary) and, as an allusive literary form, rewards equally high levels of knowledge in its readers. This knowledge has
[QUOTE] From Wilson, Anna. 2016. “The Role of Affect in Fan Fiction.” In “The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work,” edited by Ika Willis, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 21.http://ift.tt/2c6cCRl. (via wildehacked)
Fan fiction often demonstrates a high level of knowledge of and insight into its source texts (or canons, in fan fiction vocabulary) and, as an allusive literary form, rewards equally high levels of knowledge in its readers. This knowledge has
New fan-themed issue of the journal Participations
New fan-themed issue of the journal Participations The tenth issue of Participations, an online open access journal for audience studies, has a section full of new articles about fan culture. The section was put together by the Fan Studies Network,
[META] On hipsters and nerds (and fans) (by pbsideachannel)
On hipsters and nerds (and fans) (by pbsideachannel)