Fans’ archive building and archive maintenance constitute attempts to prove to the future that particular queer and female ways of being and making existed. If fan archivists did not carefully assemble such proof, women and queer fans’ digital collective actions
Fan Archiving, Part 1
Achille Mbembe states that archives confer status on their contents, and on the culture and society that produced those contents: “The archive … is fundamentally a matter of discrimination and of selection, which, in the end, results in the granting
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,
Fan Labor and the Promise of Representation
“While it might seem self-evident that online patterns are repeated in offline spaces, it is vital to note that these exclusions occur within spaces already marked by the language of representation and inclusion. That is, queer fans of color are
Fan production of counterknowledge through set reporting
Fans challenge the informational, brand control of media producers by discovering and circulating unofficial news, gossip, rumours and photos of on-set filming. [Matt] Hills discusses the phenomenon of fan “set reporting”, whereby audiences tweet, blog and upload their photos and
Fanfiction and Assemblage
“A commercially published novel is multiply produced—editors, agents, designers, marketers, literary sources, and market demands, all have their parts to play—but it comes to readers as a discrete book‐shaped entity with a single authored name. It is Carry On by
Fandom, Paratext, Authorship
Though we have long reserved the title of “author” for a single nominated figure associated with the film, television show, book, videogame, or other media product, authorship is multiple, and when paratexts can change meanings, at times profoundly, then we
The Classics of Fan Studies: John Fiske – Television Culture
For our first look at the classics of fan studies, I want to talk about a book that isn’t a work of fan studies per se but laid the groundwork for most of the research that came after it. In
Fan Time and Chrononormativity
[Elizabeth] Freeman coins the word “chrononormativity” to describe “the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity,” which results in a sense of normal or regular time being implanted in individuals; she states that chrononormativity is “a
The Classics of Fan Studies: Introduction Post
For my first Fanhackers posts, I want to (re)introduce you to some early works of fan studies that have shaped the discipline into what it is today and inspired the research of many scholars. Each post will be dedicated to