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The informational “cosplay journey” of Star Wars cosplayers in the context of a Facebook group

open access: yesInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2023
Introduction. Research on personal information practices has increased in recent decades. Building on this current of thought, the present study explores information practices in the context of serious leisure, looking specifically at the Rey Cosplay ...
Emily Vardell, Paul Thomas, Ting Wang
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Interview with Henry Jenkins

open access: yesTransformative 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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Fan/dom: People, practices, and networks

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2013
The announcement of Kindle Worlds as open to writers of fan fiction provides an opening to discuss the field of fan studies in terms of fandom communities and individual self.
Katherine E. Morrissey
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Między interpretacją a moralnością. Anty-shiperzy we współczesnym fandomie medialnym

open access: yesJournal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2021
Shipowanie jako jedna z najpopularniejszych praktyk fanowskich jest silnie nacechowana afektywnie i przypisywane są jej różne znaczenia. Zindywidualizowane interpretowanie przez fanów tekstu źródłowego i odmienne shipy, jakie na nich bazują, rodzą ...
Dominika Ciesielska, Maria Rutkowska
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Fanning Flames: A Review of 'The Adoring Audience'

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2013
A review of one of the seminal texts on fan culture, the review discusses the book's influence and relevance more than twenty years after its publication.
Ludovica Price
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"Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry," by Suzanne Scott

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2020
Review of Suzanne Scott, Fake geek girls: fandom, gender, and the convergence culture industry. New York: NYU Press, 2019, paperback, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1479879571.
Kyra Hunting
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Green Milk: The Environmental Eatymologies of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2022
Recent scholarship in media studies has explored the physical experiences of popular culture such as theme parks and fan food. Although these studies emphasize the materiality of media, they have not adequately addressed the environmental implications ...
Jamie Uy
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Love! Valor! "Supernatural"!

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2010
Editorial for Transformative Works and Cultures No. 4, special issue, "Saving People, Hunting Things."
Catherine Tosenberger
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Fandom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This entry presents an overview of the development and current state of fan studies, exploring the “reverse image” of media effects. The field of fan studies offers the ultimate rebuttal of the traditional media effects-model, by stressing the ...
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Koniec narracji triumfalistycznej w fan studies

open access: yesJournal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2021
Recenzja: Mel Stanfill, Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans, University of Iowa Press, Iowa 2019.
Agnieszka Urbańczyk
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