“Students who research a topic related to a personal fandom feel more confident in the research process because they are already positioned as an expert…” #FanLIS2025
Next! Amber Sewell with Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student confidence, and intertextual expertise #FanLIS2025
Chason-McCarthy discusses critically endangered crafts that fanbinding can revitalize, e.g. foreedge painting, paper marbling, tanning. #FanLIS2025
Distracted by personal stuff from live-blogging #FanLIS2025, sorry!
Chason-McCarthy conducted ethnography at Renegade Bindery Discord and TikTok fanbinding community. #FanLIS2025
Chason-McCarthy draws a connection between fanfiction purges from places like LiveJournal and Tumblr and fanbinding and is also suggesting that book bans in the US in school & public libraries might also be connected to fanbinding. #FanLIS2025
Beck Chason-McCarthy with Multi-Sited Ethnography of Online Fan Binding communities: implications for LIS fields and Allied Crafts #FanLIS2025
Nelson is interested in how we can use parafandom to delineate the different intentions behind disinformation and misinformation, and how we can use knowledge tools, classification, tags, etc to identify it. #FanLIS2025
Everything Nelson is sharing is fascinating but my brain just isn’t processing quickly enough to live-blog it. #FanLIS2025
Nelson is discussing the relationship between dis/misinformation and parafandom. #FanLIS2025