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The Journal of Fandom Studies is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that will be published by Intellect from 2012. The multi-disciplinary nature of fan studies makes the development of a community of scholars sometimes difficult to achieve. The Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated publication that promotes current scholarship in the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. We focus on the critical exploration, within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures, of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film, music, television, sports and gaming). The Journal of Fandom Studies aims to address key issues, while also fostering new areas of enquiry that take us beyond the bounds of current scholarship.
Potential topics include:
• ethics of fan studies
• historical perspectives on fan studies
• gender
• methodology
• consumer/producer interactions
• archival work (using collections such as the AMPAS collection of fan letters, fanzine collections, or online archives)
• competing histories of fan practices and fan studies
• analyses of specific fandoms (i.e. Buffy, Supernatural, Justin Beiber, True Blood etc)
• fan studies theory/cultural studies theory
The editors welcome both general papers and also suggestions for thematic issues. We particularly welcome abstracts for the first issue, which will consider the state of the field at present, and the second issue, which will be a twenty-year retrospective on Henry Jenkins seminal work, Textual Poachers.
For more information, please contact the editors:
Katherine Larsen
Teaching Assistant Professor
University Writing Program
Rome Hall 561
George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052
202 994 3941
klarsen@gwu.edu
John Walliss
Senior Lecturer in Sociology,
Faculty of Sciences & Social Sciences,
Liverpool Hope University,
UK
wallissj@hope.ac.uk
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