The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

Melissa A. Click’s work on fans, audiences, and popular culture has been published in Television & New Media, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Popular Music & Society, Transformative Works & Cultures, and in the anthologies Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World and in Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century. She is editor of a forthcoming anthology on anti-fandom and co-editor of Bitten by Twilight. Suzanne Scott is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared in Transformative Works and Cultures, Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and New Media & Society, as well as numerous anthologies, including Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (2nd Edition), How to Watch Television, and The Participatory Cultures Handbook. Her current book project examines the gendered tensions underpinning the media industry’s embrace of fans within convergence culture.

Section One: Methods and Ethics

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The Ethics of Studying Online Fandom
Kristina Busse




Always-On Fandom, Waiting, and Bingeing: Psychoanalysis as an Engagement with Fans’ "Infra-ordinary" Experiences
Matt Hills




Archaeologies of Fandom: Using Historical Methods to Explore Fan Cultures of the Past
Kathy Fuller-Seeley




Surveying Fandom: The Ethics, Design and Use of Surveys in Fan Studies
Lucy Bennett




Approaches to Understanding Identity: Gamers, Fans, and Research Methods
Libby Hemphill, Carly A. Kocurek, and Xi Rao




Vidding and/as Pedagogy
Katherine E. Morrissey




Fannish Identities and Scholarly Responsibilities: A Conversation
Will Brooker, Mark Duffett, and Karen Hellekson

Section Two: Technologies and Practices

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The Fan Fiction Gold Rush, Generational Turnover, and the Battle for Fandom’s Soul
Mel Stanfill




Tumblr Fan Aesthetics
Louisa Stein




Fan Tourism and Pilgrimage
Rebecca Williams




Fan Curators and Gateways into Fandom
Derek Kompare




From Model Building to 3D Printing: Star Trek and Build Code Across the Analog/Digital Divide
Bob Rehak




"We’re not There": Fans, Fan Studies and the Participatory Continuum
Rhiannon Bury




"You’re Terrible, Don’t Ever Change!": How Identity, Rule Following, and Research Roadblocks Lend Meaning to Ambivalent Fan Engagement
Whitney Phillips




Music Fandom in the Digital Age: A Conversation
Nancy Baym, Daniel Cavicchi, and Norma Coates



Section Three: Identities

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The Queer Politics of Femslash
Julie Levin Russo




(Un)covering Masculinities in Cover Song Videos
Frederik Dhaenens




"He’s a Real Man’s Man": Pro Wrestling and Negotiations of Contemporary Masculinity
Sam Ford




Everyday Costume: Feminized Fandom, Retail, and Beauty Culture
Elizabeth Affuso




The Invasion of Loki’s Army? Understanding Comic Culture’s Increasing Awareness of Female Fans
Matthew A. Cicci




Accessing Fan Cultures: Disability, Digital Media, and Dreamwidth
Elizabeth Ellcessor




Class, Capital and Collecting in Media Fandom
Lincoln Geraghty




"Just to Pique Them". Takings Sides, Social identity and Sport Audiences
Vivi Theodoropoulou




Vidding and Identity: A Conversation
Francesca Coppa, Alexis Lothian, and Tisha Turk



Section Four: Race and Transcultural Fandom

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The Invisible Bag of Holding: Whiteness and Media Fandom
Benjamin Woo




(Black Female) Fans Strike Back: The Emergence of the Iris West Defense Squad
Kristen J. Warner




Filipinos’ Forced Fandom of U.S. Media: Protests against The Daily Show and Desperate Housewives as Bids for Cultural Citizenship
Abigail De Kosnik




Charting Latinx Fandom
Jillian M. Báez




Transnational Media Fan Studies
Lori Morimoto




Exploring Local Fandom: Celebrities’ Fans in the Global-Local Nexus
Hilde Van den Bulck




Advancing Transcultural Fandom: A Conversation
Bertha Chin, Aswin Punathambekar, and Sangita Shresthova



Section Five: Industry

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The Bigger Picture: Drawing Intersections Between Comics, Fan, and Industry Studies
Alisa Perren and Laura Felschow




Conspicuous Convention: Industry Interpellation and Fan Consumption at San Diego Comic-Con
Anne Gilbert




Fans and Merchandise
Avi Santo




Fannish Affect, "Quality" Fandom, and Transmedia Storytelling Campaigns
Melanie Kohnen




"Are you ready for this?" "I don’t know if there’s a choice.": Cult reboots, The X-Files Revival, and Fannish Expectations
Bethan Jones




Platform Fandom
Jeremy Wade Morris




Industry/Fan Relations: A Conversation
Ivan Askwith, Britta Lundin, and Aja Romano



Section Six: Futures of Fan Studies

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Negotiating Fandom: The Politics of Racebending
Henry Jenkins




Fantagonism, Franchising, and Industrial Management of Fan Privilege

Derek Johnson

41. Aging, Fans, and Fandom

Lee Harrington and Denise Bielby

42. Class "Then" and Class ‘Now’ in Hotel Cerise



John Tulloch

43. Board Gamers as Fans





Paul Booth



44. Futures of Fan Studies: A Conversation

Melissa A. Click, Jonathan Gray, Jason Mittell, and Suzanne Scott