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These Are My People: An Ethnography of QuiltCon [PDF]

, 2021
This thesis presents the first ethnography of QuiltCon, the annual fan and artist convention for quiltmakers who identify with and participate in a social phenomenon called the Modern Quilt Movement (MQM) within the 21st century quilt world. QuiltCon (QC)
Barrus, Kristin
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Public versus private aca-fan identities and platforms: An academic dialogue

Transformative Works and Cultures
This conversation between Yvonne Gonzales and Celeste Oon examines the difference between two contrasting fan experiences and identities. Through an exploratory academic dialogue, the authors aim to start a discussion on the ways in which our online ...
Yvonne Gonzales, Celeste Oon
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Playing with Power: An Autoethnographic Study of The Last of Us as a Black Gamer

, 2023
This research project concerns the types of meaning making that video game players and audiences can derive as active participants in the realm of digital media culture.
Domasin, Adrienne
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We Have Never Been Acafans: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Approach to Media Fandom

Journal of Posthumanism
Media fandoms highlight the power nonhuman actors have to move, shape, and perhaps even possess us. In stating, “I am a fan of this thing,” we have already signaled a new state of being for ourselves rooted in a deep investment with something nonhuman. However, despite the foundational nonhuman entanglements of fandom, fan studies as a field has yet to
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A Multi-methods Approach in Communication Studies

, 2019
This article developed a multi-methods approach in the particular branch of Communication Studies (fandom studies) to understand transcultural fans' engagement.
Zheng, Sharon
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AcaFAN

“Aca-fan” è la definizione che lo studioso di media Henry Jenkins utilizza per collocarsi all’incrocio fra l’accademia e la passione; “Aca-fan” riassume un atteggiamento di ricerca caratterizzato dal rigore scientifico e dal profondo, autentico ...
P. Brembilla
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The question of reception in comic books: the construction of the reader-researcher of the Fables series.

A forma como uma história em quadrinhos é apreendida por cada leitor é muito diversa, e vários elementos impactam nessa relação. As referências de vida e de mundo, bem como a subjetividade desse leitor, são elementos determinantes nesse processo.
Oliveira, Maria Jaciara de Azeredo
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This Cosplayer Has Claws: The Disruption and Replication of Gendered Norms in Cosplay Communities [PDF]

‘Cosplay’ is the abbreviation of ‘costume’ and ‘play.’ The practice of cosplay is both an artistic medium of craft and performance and a lively subcultural activity.
Skentelbery, Daniel
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Peptide design for antimicrobial and immunomodulatory applications. [PDF]

Biopolymers, 2013
Haney EF, Hancock RE.
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Conexões e inflexões do streaming: netflix e dinâmicas comunicacionais na cultura pós-convergente

This investigates the reconfigurations of communicational dynamics through the advent of streaming flows, placing Netflix at the core of analysis and taking as a symbolic milestone the ten-year presence of the platform in Brazil (2011–2021).
Amorim, Matheus Bertolini
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