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Fandom Readings

This document provides an overview of the topic of fandom for a lecture. It explores how technologies have transformed audience behaviors and fan activities over the last two decades. Key readings are presented that examine whether fans are acting autonomously and creatively with media, or are adapting to mediated influences. A extensive list of further readings on issues like online fan communities, participatory fandom, and celebrity are also provided to deepen understanding of fans and fan cultures.

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Fandom Readings

This document provides an overview of the topic of fandom for a lecture. It explores how technologies have transformed audience behaviors and fan activities over the last two decades. Key readings are presented that examine whether fans are acting autonomously and creatively with media, or are adapting to mediated influences. A extensive list of further readings on issues like online fan communities, participatory fandom, and celebrity are also provided to deepen understanding of fans and fan cultures.

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Lecture 10: Fandom

Over the last two decades changing technologies of media reception and use have
dispersed audiences and transformed audience related activity. These observations are
explored in the context of fandom. Are pro-active fans acting autonomously and
creatively? Or are they merely adapting themselves to an ideologically mediated
world?

Key Readings:

Busse, K & Gray, J (2011) Fan Cultures and Fan Communities in V. Nightingale (ed.)
The Handbook of Media Audiences, Sussex, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 425-443.
Coppa, F. A Brief History of Media Fandom in K. Hellekson, K. Busse (eds) Fan
Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of Internet, North Carolina, Jefferson,
2006, pp 41-59.
Ross, K, & Nightingale V. Media and Audiences, Berkshire, Open University, 2003, pp
120-45.

Further Readings:

Abercrombie N, & Longhurst B, Audiences, London, Sage, 1998, pp121-57.
Barker A, (2009) Mick or Keith : The blended identity of online rock fans Identity in
The Information Society Vol 12 No 1 December p7-21.
Baym, N. Fans or Friends?: Seeing social media audiences as musicians doo.
Participations, Vol 9, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 286316.
Bennett, L. Music Fandom Online: REM fans in pursuit of the ultimate first listen.
New Media and Society, Vol 14, Issue 5, pp. 748763.
Booth, P. Digital Fandom: new media studies. New York, Peter Lang (2010) (course
reserve).
Foster,D. Jump in the Pool: The Competitive Culture of Survivor Fan Networks in S.
Holmes, D. Jermyn (eds), Understanding Reality Television, London, Routledge,
2004 pp 270-89.
Guiterrez P, (2009) Twylight: Crticism and the Redemption of Fandom Screen
Education Issue 54 pp. 94-98.
Kidman, S. Five lessons for new media from the history of comics culture.
International Journal of Learning, Vol 13, No 4, pp. 4154.
Mazzarella S. Claiming a space in S. Mazzarella (ed), Girlwide Web, New York, Peter
Lang, 2005 pp 141-60.
Murray, S. Celebrating the story the way it is: Cultural studies, corporate media and
the contested utility of fandom. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural
Studies, Vol 19, No 1, March 2004, pp. 725.
Rehak, R. Mapping the Bit Girl: Lara Croft and new media fandom. Information,
Communication and Society, Vol 6, issue 4, 2006, pp. 477496.
Sandvoss, C. Fans, Cambridge Polity, 2005, pp 44-66.
Shefrin, E. Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Participatory Fandom, Critical Studies
in Media Communication, Vol 21, No 3, September 2004, pp 261-81.
Stenger J (2006) The Clothes Make The Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom, when
Buffy The Vampire Slayer goes to ebay Cinema Journal 45 No 4 pp 26-44.
Theberge P. Everyday Fandom: Fan Clubs, Blogging and the Quotidian, Rhythms of
the Internet, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 30, Iss 4, 2005, pp 485-
502.
Wang, Y. A Star is Dead, A Legend is Born. Practicing Leslie Cheungs Posthumerous
Fandom in S Redmond, S. Holmes (ed), Stardom and Celebrity, London Sage
2007, pp 326-40.

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