Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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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.
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?
