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Anne Kustritz’s Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction
ANNE KUSTRITZ’S IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, AND SEXUALITY IN SLASH FAN FICTION Anne Kustritz’s new book, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics has just been relea...
Calling all fanfiction Readers it’s time to have your say.
lost-on-an-ocean-of-books : > Hi Fanfiction Readers > > My name is Tamsin and I am a PhD student, fellow lurker and > fanfiction reader. I am conducting a study into...
Fans’ attitudes toward AI-generated works
Irissa Cisternino, a PhD candidate of Stony Brook University, is writing their research on topics related to technology, art and fandom. You can participate by filling out a survey and additiona...
Help a Researcher
Leigh Ingram, a student at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, is completing a Master of Information Studies. The proposed research for their thesis is on INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOURS IN THE F...
One example of such a title is the popular web novel Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2019;…
One example of such a title is the popular web novel Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2019; originally called Er Ha He Ta De Bai Mao Shi Zun—hereafter, 2ha). (…) The book was later a...
Calling LGBTQIA+ self-insert fan fiction readers and writers!
A fourth year student at the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) at Northwestern University is conducting a research project, “LGBTQIA+ Identity Exploration and Expression Through Self...
Vidding’s Grandchildren? Edits, corecore, and other video feels
Thinking about the descendants of vidding, since I was quoted in this recent article on fan edits, “Why Do Fan-Made Trailers Rule the Internet?” by Cat Zhang. The edits of the article, like ...
I interviewed the organizers of the Media Fandom Oral History Project, and they shared about the…
ALT ALT ALT ALT I INTERVIEWED THE ORGANIZERS OF THE MEDIA FANDOM ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, AND THEY SHARED ABOUT THE PROJECT AND WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT! The project collects oral histories (int...
The whole world through queer-coloured glasses
Sometimes reading new scholarship coincides perfectly with the discussion I read here, on the blog. You have read discussion about fan perspectives on queer representation and on the fanfic l...
The Classics of Fan Studies: Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse - Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in…
THE CLASSICS OF FAN STUDIES: KAREN HELLEKSON AND KRISTINA BUSSE - FAN FICTION AND FAN COMMUNITIES IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET Today, I’m going to talk about a book that I always recommend to pe...
Honoring Our Foresmutters: Joanna Russ
Inspired to post today by the recent New York Times article on Joanna Russ, “Joanna Russ Showed Us the Future: Female, Queer but Far From Perfect, ” which promotes an exciting new collection ...
How do fans engage with the source material when there’s already canonical queer representation?
ALT ALT HOW DO FANS ENGAGE WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL WHEN THERE’S ALREADY CANONICAL QUEER REPRESENTATION? Rachel Marks looks at the fandoms for the DC Comics TV shows (like Flash, Supergirl,...
The friends we made along the way
Discussing who the characters are and what canon is, is one of fandom’s most familiar activities. > Fan reading, however, is a social process through which individual > interpretat...
We have had time for the FSNNA conference experiences to settle. There were certainly some riveting…
Fanhackers Feedback Form 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) an...
When building a spear, what matters: you, building or the spear?
katherinecrighton : > fanhackers > : > > >> At the recent FSNNA conference (were you there? Did we meet? If >> you’ve been there, the panel recordings and the d...
How To Be Gay, by David M. Halperin
While there are obvious fan studies classics, there are other books that don’t always fall into the “fan studies” canon that I have found incredibly useful for my own thinking. I cited on...
The Classics of Fan studies: Matt Hills - Fan Culture
The classic of fan studies I want to introduce today is a theoretical overview of the discipline from 2002. Indeed, in Fan Culture, Matt Hills explores the different theories of fan culture and t...
When building a spear, what matters: you, building or the spear?
At the recent FSNNA conference (were you there? Did we meet? If you’ve been there, the panel recordings and the discussion space is still available for a week.), Katherine Crighton, Dr. Naomi J...
Participating in research about the motivation of fanfiction authors
Motivation of Fanfiction Authors Research Participant Consent Form Participating in research about the motivation of fanfiction authors Want to take part in a study on motivations for writin...
The Japanese Paper Film Project
Acafans, vidders, and fair use advocates might know film studies professor Eric Faden as the maker of A Fair-y Use Tale , a mashup of Disney films used to explain copyright law and fair use. We...