This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research.
Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats, and incorporating a variety of methodologies, this collection is designed to survey, complicate, and expand core concerns. This second edition includes 20 new chapters, 11 revised chapters, and 12 reprinted chapters organized into four main sections: Methods, Ethics and Theoretical Approaches; Fan Practices and Platforms; Identities; and Industry and Labor. Each section features a short introduction that discusses the sections scope and contributions, highlights the importance of the sections topic to fan studies, and offers suggestions for further reading.
This collection remains an essential volume for students and scholars interested in fandom and fan studies, popular culture, media studies, and film and television studies.
PART I: METHODS, ETHICS, AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES Introduction MELISSA
A. CLICK AND SUZANNE SCOTT
1. The Ethics of Studying Online Fandom KRISTINA
BUSSE
2. What does the transnational mean for fan studies today? Some
provocations RUKMINI PANDE
3. (Media) Fandom is Not a Noun KATHERINE E.
MORRISSEY
4. After poaching and negotiated readings: Towards the real-time
emergence (and the temporary pauses) of fans' co-decoding MATT HILLS
5.
Surveying Fandom: The Ethics, Design, and Use of Surveys in Fan Studies LUCY
BENNETT
6. Fandom and Disability: Expanding Theoretical Perspectives to Fan
Studies DIVYA GARG
7. Transnational Media Fan Studies LORI MORIMOTO
8. When
Platforms Fall: Scraping and Interpreting Fandom Data in Tumultuous Times
ANASTASIA SALTER & BRIDGET BLODGETT
9. Archaeologies of Fandom: Using
Historical Methods to Explore Fan Cultures of the Past KATHY FULLER-SEELEY
10. Conversation on Studying "Toxic" Fans KISHONNA L. GRAY, CARRIELYNN D.
REINHARD, ADRIENNE SHAW PART II: FAN PRACTICES AND PLATFORMS
11. Where the
Fans Are: Rethinking Fan Studies and Participatory Culture RHIANNON BURY
12.
Fan Curators and the Gateways into Fandom DEREK KOMPARE
13. The Roles of
Language in Transcultural Fanfiction CLARICE GRECO
14. Fan Tourism and
Pilgrimage: Revisited REBECCA WILLIAMS
15. Negotiating Fandom: The Politics
of Racebending HENRY JENKINS
16. Shifting, Harry Potter, and TikTok Fan
Practices CLAIRE WHITLEY & KATHARINE PERROTTA
17. Tumblr Fan Aesthetics
LOUISA ELLEN STEIN
18. Accessing Platformed Fandoms: Disability and Digital
Fan Practices ELIZABETH ELLCESSOR
19. A Tale of Two Communities. The Polish
Fandom, the Fandom in Poland, and the Internets Influence on Fan Identities
AGNIESZKA URBACZYK
20. Navigating Online Ecosystems: Chinese Celebrity Fans
Participation across Social Media Platforms QIUYAN GUO
21. Vidding and
Identity: A Conversation FRANCESCA COPPA, ALEXIS LOTHIAN, AND TISHA TURK PART
III: IDENTITIES
22. The Invisible Bag of Holding: Whiteness and Media Fandom
BENJAMIN WOO
23. The Queer Politics of Femslash JULIE LEVIN RUSSO
24.
Identity, Positionality, and Comics Fandom: Women of Color Fans ERIKA CHUNG
25. Finding the National in Transnational: Mapping Identities and Power in
K-Pop Fandoms CELESTE OON
26. Charting Latinx Fandom JILLIAN M. BÁEZ
27.
Everyday Costume: Feminized Fandom, Retail, and Beauty Culture ELIZABETH
AFFUSO
28. Watching the series of the enemy: The reception of Turkish soap
operas by Greeks DIMITRA LAURENCE LAROCHELLE
29. Aging, Fans, and Fandom C.
LEE HARRINGTON AND DENISE D. BIELBY
30. Sounding Queer Fandom: Podfic and
Nonbinary Theory OLIVIA JOHNSTON RILEY
31. Boys Love Media across Asia:
Theorizing the Role of Queer Affect in Transcultural Fandom THOMAS BAUDINETTE
32. Advancing Transcultural Fandom: A Conversation BERTHA CHIN, ASWIN
PUNATHAMBEKAR, AND SANGITA SHRESTHOVA PART IV: INDUSTRY AND LABOR
33. Fans
and Merchandise AVI SANTO
34. The Fan Fiction Gold Rush 2.0: After/AI MEL
STANFILL
35. Fandom and the Politics of Cancel Culture EVE NG
36. Conspicuous
Convention: Industry Interpellation and Fan Consumption at San Diego
Comic-Con ANNE GILBERT
37. (Black Female) Fans Strike Back: The Emergence of
the Iris West Defense Squad KRISTEN J. WARNER
38. Fantagonism, Franchising,
and Industry Management of Fan Privilege DEREK JOHNSON
39. Friki Conventions:
Comic-cons, Expos, and Fandom in Mexico City GUILLERMO AGUILAR VÁZQUEZ AND
ANA FABIOLA VIDAL FERNÁNDEZ
40. Fannish Affect, Quality Fandom, and
Transmedia Storytelling Campaigns MELANIE E. S. KOHNEN
41. DAZNs Coverage
Strategies of the UEFA Womens Champions League: Growing the Game Through
Womens Football Fandom CHARLOTTE HOWELL
43. The Bigger Picture: Drawing
Intersections between Comics, Fan, and Industry Studies ALISA PERREN AND
LAURA E. FELSCHOW
43. So Strike We All: Union Action and Cosplay on the
Picket Line SUZANNE SCOTT AND KATE FORTMUELLER
Melissa A. Click is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Gonzaga University, USA. Her work on fans, audiences, and popular culture has been published in Television & New Media, the International Journal of Communication Studies, Popular Communication, and Popular Music & Society. She is editor of Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age (2019), and the co-editor of Bitten by Twilight (2010).
Suzanne Scott is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (2019), and the co-editor of Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (2023).
