The dilemma that online researchers have to confront is how to respect a user’s or group’s perceived privacy while simultaneously not ignoring their voices.
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🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform
We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the scholarship we produce, and if we have given our fan identifications too much influence over academic ones.
🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform
I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position that we bring to our work as well as to our investment in media texts and/or their communities.
🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost.
Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.
🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV.
The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, while that which clearly is getting broadly read and cited is viewed as an optional hobby.
🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV.
It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of analysis… but as a structuring facet of academic research.
🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter
I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”
🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month
This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.
🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic
🔖 Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen.
I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good points about the limits of academic funding and publishing and the value of public science communication.