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Jan. 21st, 2026 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_shoshanna(To be clear, I absolutely understand all my friends' reasons and I'm glad they made the calls that are right for them! And we've all planned to see each other when I hope to come down again in April. I'm just sad not to see them 1. at all 2. much now. also I was hoping 1 would want to watch HR with me)
On the other hand, this means I'll be going home before a big storm hits this weekend, which if I'd kept my original schedule might otherwise have ended up delaying me for an extra day, which would then make things tight at home because we're planning to go to Montreal right after I get back. Everything happens for the tolerable in this not yet the shittiest of all possible worlds.
on the road
Jan. 20th, 2026 03:00 pmthe_shoshannaMy obsession with Heated Rivalry continues, though I'm trying hard not to be That Fan at people. I have successfully recommended it to two board members at my church đ A friend I'll spend a week with this summer wants to watch it with me then, so I have that to look forward to, and there's a chance I'll get to watch it with other friends this weekend, if they're interested. Meanwhile I'm reading a lot of fic, but also freely DNFing anything that isn't working for me, whether for characterization or bad grammar or spelling it "Rosanov."
["Why, oh why, do people keep incorrectly capitalizing dialog-tag fragments like this?" She wailed. -- I mean, I know why they do it: because autocorrect sees the punctuation ending the quotation and thinks the dialog tag is a new sentence, and the writer is foolishly trusting autocorrect over the evidence of every published text they've ever read. But it drives me nuts; my sense of the flow and pacing of a sentence is very much guided by its punctuation, and this is like hitting a pothole every time.]
Geoff and I have started the new season of The Pitt, and certainly I'm liking it so far! It's interesting how much less chaotic the ER seems than it was in the first couple episodes of the first season. I'm very curious about all the characters they've introduced (and about where Mateo, the World's Hottest Nurseâ˘ď¸, is), and I love seeing Whitaker now a fully qualified MD with his own little ducklings following him around. (Is he still living with Santos?) I don't see an overarching plot yet
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work - Part 1: Journals
Jan. 18th, 2026 07:57 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
fanhackers_feedIn the coming weeks, Iâm going to do a bit of a tour around acafandom’s research outlets and platforms - by which I mean journals, presses, book series, archives: places where you might find work youâre interested in (or submit work youâre creating yourself!)
Todayâs post will be about journals: these are typically peer-reviewed (the better the journal, the more peer-reviewed and the blinder the peer review). Fan studies now has field-specific journals, but there are journals in other fields that have always been particularly friendly to fan studies work. (If you know of a journal that I should spotlight, please comment!)Â
Transformative Works and Cultures - https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc
I canât help but start, maternally, with the OTWâs own flagship journal, Transformative Works and Cultures. This Diamond Open Access journal has been publishing consistently and on time since it was founded in 2007. (If youâre not an academic, you donât know how rare that is! Academic time is glacial and things often come out really late - not TWC!) Â
âTWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived, as well as articles about the fan community. We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fan vids, film, TV, anime, fan art, comic books, cosplay, fan community, music, video games, celebrities and machinima, and encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism. We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship; hyperlinked articles; or other forms that test the limits of academic writing.â
Sample work:
Kennedy, Kimberly. 2024. “‘It’s Not Your Tumblr’: Commentary-Style Tagging Practices in Fandom Communities.” In “Fandom and Platforms,” edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, and Lesley Willard, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2475.
Journal of Fandom Studies - https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies
The Journal of Fandom Studies is subscription-based, so access is best gotten through a library that subscribes to it. (Or - hot insider tip - if you need an article, typically if you write to the scholar/author they will share a copy with you. Scholars live to be cited! :D)Â
âThe Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. We focus on the critical exploration, within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures, of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film, music, television, sports and gaming).â
Sample work:
Oh, Chuyun. 2015. Queering spectatorship in K-pop: The androgynous male dancing body and western female fandom.Journal of Fandom Studies, Â Volume 3, Issue 1, Mar 2015, p. 59 - 78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.3.1.59_1
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - https://www.cmstudies.org/page/jcms and https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms
The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - previously called Cinema Journal - has long been friendly to fan studies scholarship. Many sections are open access, including the âIn Focusâ section, and the journal is typically available as part of the Project Muse database in libraries.
âJCMS’s basic mission is to foster engaged debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies. We are committed to the aesthetic, political, and cultural interpretation of these media and their production, circulation, and reception. To that end, JCMS is dedicated to intellectual diversity of all kinds.â
Sample work:
Anselmo, Diana W. 2022. âPicture Pain: Anti-Heteronormative Female Fandom in Early Hollywood,â JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Volume 62, Issue 1, pp. 7-35. doi: 10.1353/cj.2022.0061
M/C Journal - https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal
M/C Journal was founded (as “M/C â A Journal of Media and Culture”) in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. M/C Journal is a fully blind-, peer-reviewed academic journal, open to submissions from anyone.
Sample work:
Svegaard, S. F. K., & Vilkins, S. (2025). âFandom and Politics.âM/C Journal, 28(3). Retrieved from https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3190
Three for the Memories Open Until January 24th
Jan. 12th, 2026 06:02 pmyourlibrarian![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
threeforthememories is off to a great start! You have until January 24th to make your own post. I made mine today about my 2025.2) Speaking of things to rec, saw the film House of Dynamite and thought it was wonderfully done â- except for the ending. ( Read more... )
I do think that its structure was helpful, given that just 10 minutes in there is a lot starting to go on, and it helped to have it reinforced with repeated elements.
3) Another yes from me was for the series The Beast in Me. This is mostly because I thought it was particularly well done. I'm not a big fan of the murderous husband/neighbor type thriller because they're always guilty and one of my DNW is gaslighting elements. But I thought this was a particularly well developed story and one with less "shocking twist!" than unexpected surprises that relate to character development.
4) The documentary about the making of Frozen 2 was very interesting, and rather surprising, in seeing how Disney approaches making an animated film. I'd think that -- given the costs and enormous amount of labor -- they would have a script nailed down before starting. And not just a draft, but one that had been run past the internal focus groups, had a table reading done by the cast, etc. Instead they scrapped tons of work from animators, some of which took them a year, because they kept veering back and forth on elements of the story, rewriting the central songs, etc. ( Read more... )
5) The re-release of the Beatles Anthology on Disney+ promised a new episode and remastered footage. It certainly looked very good, but as I'd seen it during its 1990s release, I noticed more about the big gaps in it. ( Read more... )
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Want to leave a Kudos?
fanhackers_feedIn previous posts, I have talked about data fandom and fan labour as something inherently linked to commercialization. In a paper I read, though, I discovered a case where data fandom was used as a tool â both to achieve certain goals on social media directly and to transform the participantsâ fannish identity.
When the Dallas police launched the app iWatch Dallas for people to report law-breaking demonstrators, K-pop fans flooded the Dallas police official Twitter account with random K-pop videosâand many of these videos were fan cams. The app was disabled due to âtechnical issuesâ within a day, possibly because of such negative reactions on social media (Alexander 2020). Later, many K-pop fans spammed racist, white supremacist Twitter hashtags, such as #WhiteLivesMatter, with fan cams, eventually leading to these tagsâ trending under the âK-popâ category on Twitter (Aswad 2020).
Zhang, Muxin. 2024. âFandom Image Making and the Fan Gaze in Transnational K-pop Fan Cam Culture.â In âFandom and Platforms,â edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, and Lesley Willard, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2463.
Fans in general are certainly very aware of discourse about them and their activities â that is the entire premise of this blog. It is more of a question of whether a transformative approach is accessible, not if we are aware that alternatives might be needed.
However, Zhang also shows that this use of fancams was not universal among stans. The difference is made between North American fans and South Korean fans and this difference is attributed to the identification with an idolâs success.
This identification might be very well grounded in the way the industry operates.
(âŚ) fan leaders are portrayed as individual opinion leaders or fan clubs (formal or informal) who set the agenda and organize the collective action of daily fan activities, while they also function as intermediaries maintaining a close communication with the idolâs media companies and uniting individual fans.
Wu, Xueyin. 2021. âFan Leadersâ Control on Xiao Zhanâs Chinese Fan Community.â Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 36. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2053.
Because of this coordination between the media company and fan leaders, the activities of fans can have an impact of the idolâs reputation and thus success. This responsibility is not shared by the North American fans.
In this way, while all the fans described can identify with their bias but it is an identification that is expressed in different ways which leaves them with different ways of expressing their fannish identity. Though, we are only looking at one case here, it already reveals some of the complexities and nuances we can encounter in fandom.
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