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GAMSA HAMNIDA!!!

I just wanted to take this time to thank everyone who participated in our survey. Lisa and I are blown away by the sincerity and detail of these responses, and we’re so grateful for your time and effort. Now our real work begins. In honour of the warm and fuzzy feeling the responses gave me, here is a video from my latest K-dorama obsession:

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A summer’s worth of guestposts

One of the things which always strikes me about the Internet is the generosity of its inhabitants. Perhaps it’s because I’m asking the notoriously gift-oriented fannish crowd for their input, or maybe I just happen to have made a lucky series of acquaintances over the years, but when I started asking people for guestposts, they replied eagerly. The roster is by no means solid, but here’s a sneak peek at what we’ll be discussing this summer:

  • cosplay, photography, and convention behaviour for the fanthropologist
  • vidding (how to read it, how to cite it, why it’s awesome)
  • the cultural assumptions Westerners bring to anime
  • a look at a fan-studies thesis proposal and bibliography (good for students just starting out)

And those are just the people who have emailed me back! I’ve already put the feelers out for some more posts, and will update you as things happen. Meantime, comment here if you can think of other researchers whose work you’d like to hear more about.

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Welcome to FandomResearch!

Welcome to FandomResearch. If you are here, it is probably because you read things like Transformative Works & Cultures or Mechademia. As such, you’re probably interested in the relationship between media, literary, sporting, or other properties, and the people who consume them. You’re probably also interested in things like fan crafts and re-mix culture, and you’ve probably engaged in them yourself as either a creator or a lurker. You might seriously be wondering if post-modernism is dead, or whether fanfic is a force of nature.

If this is the case, then you are in the right place. If you stay here, you’ll get to hear about all kinds of new research in the field of fan studies. Here, academics and fans can post their surveys and questionnaires in the hope of finding new participants (as well as giving them another link back to their contact information). We can talk about methods which have worked in the field, and which ones haven’t. We can prevent redundant research by talking about the scope and intent of previous projects. We can find each other. We can communicate.

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