🔖 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.