Notes
If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.
Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.
🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom.
the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet ever-present and deeply internalized, part of [the acafan’s] methodology.
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.
🔖 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.
Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is Buenamigo’s cigar hand-rolled or replicated? 🖖🏻
📚 Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto.
A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled pre-fan studies cultural studies scholarship and many new directions for future reads. Highly recommend.
💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience or enact.” Lori Morimoto, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies
What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies 📚
Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My institution doesn’t subscribe, so I can’t set up an alert from a database. Other suggestions?
💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, “Introduction,” edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams
I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits most of the bridge crew to join his improv team.
Hello world. I’m weary. For reasons. Sometimes life is a lot. I’m really glad there are great bits when there are because it would be so much harder if it were 100% slog. Still, it’s been a rough 2022.
Having a nightmare where your relative who’s dealing with infection-induced delirium in the waking world wanders off & is convinced by quack medical professionals that at the age of 66 she underwent immaculate conception is Not Helpful. Brain, please stop inventing new stressors.
Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).
Taking another run at limiting screen time, because I’m wondering if the increase in migraines for me lately is correlated with an increase in screen time.
My superpower is taking any Star Trek: The Next Generation B-story focused on Data and forgetting the A-story that goes with it “The Outrageous Okona” becomes “Data meets Joe Piscopo” and “Peak Performance” becomes “Data has impostor syndrome thanks to Strategema.” 🖖
My kid goes to a Reggio Emilia school; his kindergarten class is a community of researchers. Today he & I talked about our epistemological stances. When I defined epistemological stance for him I was like, “There, just saved you 6 years of grad school.”