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