Me too. And it's my field XD. I remember being 16 and enmeshed in ff.net culture and finding it so much more interesting and exciting and relevant than English at school (shit teacher) and thinking one day I am going to write a groundbreaking book about this. 2 years later, go to library. Turns out fan studies is already an Established Thing. Semi ecstatic, semi disappointed I will never pioneer anything. Then again, retrospectively, it would be rather weird and neglectful if it weren't being studied at this point. I mean what is media and cultural studies? (Or as I like to say - What ISN'T media and cultural studies? XD). Something like: the study of texts and materials produced and circulated by humans, informed by lit and lang studies, economics, politics, gender studies, psychology, sociology, law.....ETC. So now that fandom is pretty visible and clearly a large part of a lot of people's cultural activity and the way we make sense of our lives and identities, it would be pretty weird if people *weren't* studying it.
Thank you! ♥ So glad you could come and found it thought provoking. I have so much to say about this conference but that's a post for another day. I'm really looking forward to hearing/reading more about your current research though. I loves your paper.
The parts I blog about are. ;). I don't think anyone would be to keen on a three page rant about having to enter 60 grades on an excel spreadsheet by 8 digit student number, no names, and how every single term I can guarantee some people write their student number with two digits out of order, thus bringing my whole tenuous system crashing down around me at 10:30 on a weeknight.
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(still can't friggin log in. limited login attempts can get bent)
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