We have had time for the FSNNA conference experiences to settle. There were certainly some riveting talks and novel ways of presentations (including playable games) and we could watch it all in your company. This was possible because we just
Meet the Volunteer: Szabó Dorottya
There are already 76 posts here published under the name Szabó Dorottya here and it is a joy and honour for me to reintroduce myself as the leader of this ragtag group of scholars you met or met again these
Notes about the fannish and the academic
A few months ago, in one of these posts i wrote about my experience at a conference where scholars of literature failed to engage in a discussion about the theory presented in the talk but got stuck at the existence
Aca fan discourse, fandom academic discourse
Fan criticism is the institutionalization of feminime reading practices just as the dominant mode of academic criticism is the institutionalization of masculine learning practices. JENKINS, HENRY (1992). TEXTUAL POACHER, ROUTLEDGE, 118. If Jenkins already saw fandom as a type of
What academica can learn from fandom
Thus rather than trying to create a homogenous reading or attempting to essentialize fandom and the artworks that spring out of it, we hope to mirror the discussions and vitality of differences that characterize fandom. Hellekson, Karen; Busse, Kristina 2006.