val-mora asked: Do you (collectively) know anyone who is taking a network science approach, rather than a humanities/social science approach, to fan studies, that I can learn from? I’m an undergraduate in engineering and am looking for ways to make
Is Fandom the New Cinephilia?
Is Fandom the New Cinephilia? There are two specific reasons I think the current state of fandom could be seen as a successor — or at least a second cousin twice removed — of classical cinephilia, and the first one is this: just as
Star Wars and the legitimisation of fans in fandom-sceptical South East Asia
Star Wars and the legitimisation of fans in fandom-sceptical South East Asia As films like Star Wars become more prominent, and with the growing importance of Chinese audiences, these kinds of marketing strategies that capitalises on the official and special
[REQUEST] Fandom and the Internet
Hello, As part of my geography project, I am looking at factors of change in a community. I’m looking at the effect of Internet on the fandom, but I’m not old enough to know any fandom pre-Internet. I’m hoping for
[REQUEST] [REQUEST] Fan studies-friendly undergraduate programs
Hi! I was wondering if anyone could recommend or share any information on undergraduate media studies programs that are fan studies-friendly (include fan studies courses, have fan studies scholars teaching, etc.). I’ve found a lot of graduate programs that seem
[REQUEST] Fan studies-friendly undergraduate programs
Hi! I was wondering if anyone could recommend or share any information on undergraduate media studies programs that are fan studies-friendly (include fan studies courses, have fan studies scholars teaching, etc.). I’ve found a lot of graduate programs that seem
[QUOTE] From Protected: Beatles Fangirls: A History Posted on June 18, 2016 by popmitzvah http://ift.tt/1Y1oRnm
If Beatlemania quickly became synonymous with The Beatles as a star text, then so too did the powerful and self-determined performance of female desire. The Beatles fangirl did not so much experience a loss of control than she declared a
Questionnaire about Social Justice Activism in Fandom
Hello, My name is Asmita Jain. I’m a graduate student at King’s College London currently reading for my MA in Digital Culture and Society. As part of my final dissertation thesis, I’m conducting some research into fans perspective of social
Call For Collaboration-Textual Analysis of Supernatural
Posted on request from Liorah Golomb: I am looking for a collaborator with computational linguistic skills for a project mining the dialogue of the U.S. television program Supernatural (CW Network, 2005-present). My goal is to demonstrate, through textual analysis, the
[QUOTE] From Posted on September 02, 2014 by Rebecca Tushnet, http://ift.tt/1numd2K
Neal Pollack’s article defending Amazon has many points of interest. The only one I’ll engage with is that, contrary to the marketing, Amazon is still seeding Kindle Worlds with pro authors under contract—and apparently given advances as well as editorial