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d different possibilities for researching them these past few posts could provide a bibliography for the research question segment part of a paper though with the suggestion from any reasonable reviewer to narrow the scope down but to actually write that segment would require some significant restructuring with the initial interest in how fans seek and organise information to a detour to why the ways and best practices of fannish ephemera is relevant some literature on how the already existing archival systems could incorporate fanworks and finally turning back to the question of how fandom already archives itself through fans distinct information behaviour and how this can inform information practices in general the real scholarship might just be the questions we made along the way author szabó dorottya price l robinson l fandom studies fanhackers 1 week ago 17 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google your go to piece of criticism kirsty sedgman kirsty sedgman describes herself as a doctor of audiences and her wildly popular and highly readable books include on being unreasonable breaking the rules and making things better faber faber 2023 and the reasonable audience theatre etiquette behaviour policing and the live performance experience palgrave 2018 as well as the collection theatre fandom u iowa 2025 coedited by matt hills and me her latest book how to understand theatre audiences was just released in the uk and is forthcoming in the us her contribution to fanhackers is from a foundational scholar raymond williams fc the title and author of the work williams raymond 1960 culture society new york anchor books i do not think of my relatives friends neighbours colleagues acquaintances as masses we none of us can or do the masses are always the others whom we don t know and can t know yet now in our kind of society we see these others regularly in their myriad variations stand physically beside them they are here and we are here with them and that we are with them is of course the whole point to other people we also are masses masses are other people there are in fact no masses there are only ways of seeing people as masses 319 how i use this it s easy to think about ourselves as complexly nuanced individuals who have power and agency over how we make use of mass and social media and about other people as passively vulnerable easily manipulated or influenced by the things they watch read and hear this quote reminds me not to fall into the trap of seeing fans in this way as an undifferentiated mass dr kirsty sedgman university of bristol quotes fanhackers fan studies francesca coppa acafandom kirsty sedgman theatre fandom audience studies 1 week ago 19 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google fannish expertise returning to price s examination of fannish information behaviours we are introduced to four related areas that this research can contribute to one of them being education which is in a sense a negotiation of different information behaviours in as much as learning is acquiring new information and organising and using that information in certain ways price brings examples from the scholarship of more explicit learning relationships in fandom that of creative writing and game modding mentors however as we have already addressed the unique information behaviours of fandom these behaviours are also learned in some way this less explicit and formalized learning of less easily defined skills or information defying easy categorization might be more telling about fandom price ludovica 2017 serious leisure in the digital world exploring the information behaviour of fan communities phd diss city university of london https openaccess city ac uk id eprint 19090 author szabo dorottya information behaviours education ludovica price fanhackers 3 weeks ago 11 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google your go to piece of criticism mel stanfill this week s go to piece of criticism comes to us from mel stanfill currently the editor of transformative works and cultures and author of books such as fandom is ugly nyu 2024 and exploiting fandom how the media industry seeks to manipulate fan s u iowa 2019 their choice cathy cohen s 1997 article punks bulldaggers and welfare queens the radical potential of queer politics mel also sent us a picture of their own well loved copy fc cohen cathy j 1997 punks bulldaggers and welfare queens the radical potential of queer politics glq a journal of lesbian and gay studies 3 4 437 65 i often say cathy cohen changed my life reading punks bulldaggers and welfare queens in grad school was the first time i really got how intersectionality worked how structures of inequality create stratification even within marginalized groups that has been essential to my thinking about how fans although they may be treated as weird by the mainstream although they may be women although they may be queer show that there are varying degrees and multiple sites of power distributed within all categories p 439 and particularly how fans marginalization along some axes often suppresses attention to fandom racism mel stanfill associate professor in the texts technology program university of central florida keep reading quotes fan studies fanhackers francesca coppa mel stanfill cathy cohen acafandom fandom studies queer theory 3 weeks ago 13 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google while print fan fiction does exist by way of fanzines print on demand services and fanbinding the practice of printing out and binding fan fiction diy style the vast majority of fan fiction is only found in digital formats however some participants indicated some level of separation between reading fan fiction and fiction and spoke about them as though they were entirely different hobbies this distinction in the participants preferences for the format of their reading materials could be acting as a separation print for fiction and digital for fan fiction may help them to keep their two reading hobbies distinct miller j nicole information seeking behaviors of young adult readers of fiction and fan fiction in fandom histories edited by philipp dominik keidl and abby s waysdorf special issue transformative works and cultures no 37 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2022 2245 j nicole miller fanhackers fandom studies 1 month ago 55 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google your go to piece of criticism suzanne scott today s go to piece of criticism comes from suzanne scott and it s a wonderful quote from a book that is not cited enough i think in fan studies despite being an absolutely critical underpinning of the field girls and subcultures by angela mcrobbie and jenny garber shifted the whole field of subculture studies which previously really only talked about male subcultures because those were the ones that were visible in public space bikers mods rockers teddy boys punks etc it was mcrobbie and garber who pointed out that female subcultures tended to operate very differently suzanne scott herself is one of the most significant scholars to build on this work her book fake geek girls fandom gender and the convergence culture industry nyu 2019 looks at the ways in which women and girls are still seen and treated differently when they do fandom fc keep reading fanlore quotes fan studies fanhackers fandom studies francesca coppa fake geek girls women and fandom subculture studies 1 month ago 27 comments permalink share short url twitter facebook pinterest google fiction and fragmented non fiction a previous post on fanwork s immortality touched on how the ephemera of fandom could be considered for archiving this is elaborated by scholars in fandom studies as a direct result of how transformative works and cultures are already structured those who enter a fandom learn the culture of the fans through their fiction the fanon explanations the subtextual relationships that are made text the rereading and rewriting of source texts into something nurtured and expanded upon those new participants who enter the fandom are inspired by what they read learn from what they read and build upon it creating complex and ever deepening interpretations that are shared with those who came before and after them versaphile 2011 silence in the library archives and the preservation of fannish history in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0277 but if we want to take seriously the possibility that ephemeral conflict and online sex might function to undermine dominant sexual gendered racialized and economic ways of being both on and off line we cannot restrict fannish politics to the easily archivable lothian alexis 2011 an archive of one s own subcultural creativity and the politics of conservation in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0267 let us take a step back now and look at how the fragmented non fiction ephemera and the fiction appear together in the various structures of fandom spaces some of the quotes focus on structures that appear or fade away with time due to various reasons if you are interested in these reasons and a diachronic look in more detail let me know one structural attribute is how differentiated the fictional works themselves are this is related to the preference for a central archive as opposed to smaller specific ones or vica versa the existence and type of tagging systems and search functions what the most of us are familiar with is probably archive of our own with its centralisation tag wrangling and sophisticated search and filter on the other hand we can have a big central archive without effective ways to search inside them when fandom studies discusses a fannish identity or fannish culture independent of the source material these archives and communities are frequently discussed readers could easily find a wealth of stories and there was little fragmentation within the fandom for a single source material one downside of these large comprehensive fandom archives was the difficulty for the reader to find desired content without robust categorization and search versaphile 2011 silence in the library archives and the preservation of fannish history in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0277 these fandoms all fit comfortably within the genres of shows typically attractive to media fans but the late 1990s were distinguished by the crossover between traditional media fandoms and other kinds of fandoms namely comics celebrities music and anime these intersections would quickly have a profound effect on traditional media fandom coppa francesca 2006 a brief history of media fandom in fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the internet new essays edited by karen hellekson and kristina busse 41 60 jefferson nc mcfarland 2006 smaller separate archives would seemingly create separate cultures however the ease of creation also produced a great deal of audience fragmentation while the new platform allowed for a more tailored fannish experience where a fan could focus on a list dedicated to a minor pairing or a particular story trope the segmentation prevented a more common fannish consensus many mailing lists were perceived not only to outsiders but even to many inside observers to cover the same interests for fans it often became necessary both to join multiple groups to keep up with new stories and to cross post to multiple groups to gain exposure many groups used privacy controls to block access to nonmembers and membership could depend upon moderator approval versaphile 2011 silence in the library archives and the preservation of fannish history in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0277 however we see the practice of creating fannish spaces that are not limited to one fandom but incorporate fanworks from these smaller more specialized archives rec lists interpreted as tools of archiving or canonisation are certainly fascinating with a consistent repository for stories recommendation sites and bookmarking services such as delicious can be used to create targeted subsets of fan fic just as themed miniarchives do compensating for the findability problems that even the most well indexed archives suffer versaphile 2011 silence in the library archives and the preservation of fannish history in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0277 however it became common practice for authors to link back to their own journals rather than mirroring their stories in the community space making those communities little more than collections of announcements rather than any sort of central archive versaphile 2011 silence in the library archives and the preservation of fannish history in fan works and fan communities in the age of mechanical reproduction edited by nancy reagin and anne rubenstein special issue transformative works and cultures no 6 https doi org 10 3983 twc 2011 0277 then the non fandom specific non fiction elements of fandom are mixed together with transformative works in the early 00s fandom expanded into the blogsphere and its widespread and enthusiastic adoption has had interesting consequences for the fan created space whereas usenet listservs newsgroups and bulletin boards all focus on a particular fan topic a television program for example people who blog are just that people who are fans who blog as a result individual journals become a mix of fannish and other topics about that fandom thus including not only fiction fan art and commentary on the source text but also real life rl rants political discussion and nonfannish musings busse kristina and karen hellekson 2006 introduction work in progress in fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the internet new essays edited by karen hellekson and kristina busse 5 32 jefferson nc mcfarland yet the fandom wank community too facilitates long term preservation of fan cultural practices aggregating histories through an endless succession of in jokes and links these ephemeral traces are likely to include fannish creations that are tangential or irrelevant and sometimes oppositional to the texts both initial and archontic around which they cluster yet the 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