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A Glee-ful collaboration: Academic networking in the Tumblr world [PDF]
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 Four authors representing disparate disciplines recount their experiences meeting each other through Glee (2009–15) fandom via Tumblr, with an exploration of the popular microblogging site's utility as a platform for fan scholarship.
Elizabeth M. Downey +3 more
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Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 For nearly three decades, the field of fan studies has helped to shift the conversation on fandom from a study of pathological individuals to exploring how groups make use of and transform the contemporary media landscape. Fandom itself is also changing.
Abby Waysdorf
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When normal and deviant identities collide: Methodological considerations of the pregnant acafan
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 In this article, I examine how my visibly pregnant body influenced my experience as a field researcher at a fan convention, interviewing amateur fan fiction authors who write Harry Potter male-pregnancy fan fiction.
Mary Ingram-Waters
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Cosplay: Community, hierarchy, and the Acafan methodology [PDF]
, 2023 Cosplay is the act of dressing and performing as a character from popular media and is typically associated with fan conventions. The academic study of gender-play cosplay (explicit play with gendered codes) has framed cosplay as a socially ...
Skentelbery, Daniel
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Rhetorical moves in disclosing fan identity in fandom scholarship
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 The position of the acafan in fan studies remains under negotiation, and authors must make choices about if and how identities as fans are disclosed within scholarship.
Adrienne E. Raw
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"Framing fan fiction: Literary and social practices in fan fiction communities," by Kristina Busse
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019 Review of Kristina Busse. Framing fan fiction: Literary and social practices in fan fiction communities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017, paperback, $45 (262p) ISBN 978-9888390809.
Abby Waysdorf
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This unthemed issue centers on the preoccupation with the embodied fan. Essays discuss such topics as the concerns of the aging and the pregnant fan, the relationship of virginity and popular media texts among teen girl fans, and representations of ...
TWC Editor
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Fans of color, fandoms of color
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019 Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019).
Abigail De Kosnik, andré carrington
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008 An interview with Henry Jenkins focussing on Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), and Jenkins' academic research into fan and participatory cultures.
TWC Editor
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Un enfoque multimétodo en los estudios de comunicación: la autoetnografía, las entrevistas cualitativas y la netnografía [PDF]
, 2019 This article developed a multi-methods approach in the particular branch of Communication Studies (fandom studies) to understand transcultural fans' engagement.
Zheng, Sharon, Zheng, Shiyu
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