bakurapika asked: I had an undergrad paper in 2015 or so about roleplay on tumblr (specifically the vocabulary in use). I don’t suppose that’s something I could post somewhere useful? Excellent question. If you want to publish an undergrad paper about
Meet the volunteer: Nele
Hi everyone! I’m Nele (she/her), and while I’ve been involved with Fanhackers for a long time, it’s been years since I actually said hello by name. So, intro post for me too. I’m unjapanologist on Twitter and Tumblr. I live
The reception the Lexa Pledge has received suggests ambivalence about the impact of #BuryYourGays. Showrunners are now more aware of television’s tendency to kill queer characters, but they are wary of a blanket commitment to avoiding the trope. Their reluctance
The internal struggle for the control of the television text is clear in the case of The 100. In this regard, fans participating in the ‘LGBT Fans Deserve Better’ campaign used social media to denounce the distorted and harmful representation
OAPEN Library – Productive Fandom This cosplay-centric book on fandom by Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is free to download and read. Blurb: This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that
Although Disney has yet to feature a queer female heroine in its fairy tale canon, that does not deter queer Disney femslash fans from poaching Disney texts in order to create fairy tales that legitimise their place in society. Through
List of openly accessible fan culture and popular culture studies journals
List of openly accessible fan culture and popular culture studies journals The list is in French, but the journals listed are all in English, and they’re all free to access for anyone. Excellent resource.
transformativeworksandcultures: TWC #23: Sherlock Holmes, Fandom, Sherlockiana, and the Great Game (special issue, edited by Roberta Pearson and Betsy Rosenblatt) Editorial Roberta Pearson,Betsy Rosenblatt “In all my experience I cannot recall any more singular and interesting study” Theory Ann McClellan,
New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures
Volume 18 of the open-access fan studies journal TWC is out, full of great analysis about fan culture. Check out the articles below! Editorial Performance and performativity in fandom – Lucy Bennett, Paul J. Booth Theory Self-representation in literary fandom: Women’s leisure
Transformative Works and Cultures: Vol 17 (2014)
Transformative Works and Cultures: Vol 17 (2014) acafanmom: New issue posted today, and several essays/interviews/reviews that may be of interest to people here: Redefining gender swap fan fiction: A Sherlock case study – Ann McClellan Bull in a china shop: