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The AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 was an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users conducted in January 2024. We have just finished posting our initial results, so here is just a taste of the graphs and data you can check out now over on AO3!
The anonymised dataset from this survey is now available for researchers.
A full list of the survey questions with links to the relevant data is below the cut!
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Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
Fanfiction can be many things: an interpretation of the source text, an insight into a fandom culture, or an exemplar of popular narrative tropes and themes. But fannish stories are also, always, works of fiction, and they reward in-depth analysis as much as any other work of literature.
In Reading Fanfiction/Fanfiction Readings, we aim to put together a collection of essays in which we treat fan fiction as an important form of contemporary literature, using the tools of close reading: focus on the author’s use of language, imagery, and theme. This project calls to all of us who have discussed a story for hours (or over many comments or DMs), or who have a story that we rec to friends who don’t know the fandom or the characters, because it just has that much to offer, or who have a story we come back to long after we’ve moved on to another fandom, a story that we have analyzed in passing but feel it deserved an article of its own. If you love close textual readings and love fan fiction and have a story that says and means so much more, we want your contribution!
There is something truly toxic about how academic language is being weaponized in fan spaces. Historical, literary, and theoretical references used not to critique a text or lead to greater understanding of it, but instead to bludgeon anyone who disagrees or disappoints. It bothers me because these posts often look and feel persuasive at first, but don’t hold up to any scrutiny. They are also really long, which again, looks like deep analysis, but in the end, feels more like gish galloping disguised as critique/analysis.
I would love to see more meta in fandom, and it bothers me that academic discourse is being used for clout and influence rather than as an invitation to discuss.
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work - Part II: Book Series
Last post, I looked at academic journals that published scholarship in fan studies; today, we’ll take a tour of some fandom-specific book series at specific presses.
Fandom & Culture Series, U Iowa - https://uipress.uiowa.edu/series/fandom-culture
Fandom & Culture seeks dynamic books that challenge readers to reexamine preconceived notions of fandom, fan communities, and fan works. Titles in this series employ innovative methods and analysis that address the unique dimensions of fan passions, whether dealing with personal reflections or transcultural topics.
Sample work: Austentatious: the Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, (2019) by Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein. https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/austentatious
Bloomsbury Fandom Primers - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bloomsbury-fandom-primers/
The Bloomsbury Fandom Primer series publishes original works from an international range of scholars that offer short, pointed, and deliberate investigations of particularly important fandoms, moments within fan history, transcultural fan audiences, debates within fandom and fan studies, unique fan practices, or events within fandom that speak to larger cultural issues
Sample work: The Construction of Race in Les Misérables Fanworks: Liberty, Equality, Diversity, (2024) by Nemo Madeleine Sugimoto Martin
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/construction-of-race-in-les-mis%C3%A9rables-fanworks-9798765107669/
Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Fan-and-Fandom-Studies/book-series/FAN This exciting and innovative series publishes new and cutting-edge research on everything fan- and fandom-related. Covering all forms of media, the series presents new insights into this dynamic subject.
Sample work:Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review (20245 by Anne Korfmacher https://www.routledge.com/Fan-Podcasts-Rewatch-Recap-Review/Korfmacher/p/book/9781032721972
One of our lovely Patrons is doing research on fandom and fanfiction, and if you're located in the US, you can help out!
I’m Brianna Dym, a faculty member at The Roux Institute and am also a pretty enthusiastic participant in fandom. I research how marginalized groups use technology to empower themselves. I want to talk to fellow fanfiction writers about your experience writing fanfic, what you write about, and when you write fic. Or! If you don't write fic but are an avid reader, I'd still love to talk to you. If you are interested in sharing your story or have questions about the study, you can reach out to me at [email protected] or by responding to this survey with preferred contact information. The survey collects no identifiable information beyond what you choose to share. Your experiences can help contribute to understanding linguistic features of empowerment in stories.
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Five Things LianneW Said
In FiveThings LianneW talks about researching acafandom and oral history projects as an OTW Fanhackers volunteer! https://otw-news.org/2p8tztdy
It is in my hands! Officially out July 1st from McFarland but on order now. 16 essays on Star Trek novels and their authors.
Table of content:
Introduction: Into the Vastness of the Novelverse Caroline-Isabelle Caron and Kristin Noone 1 Official, but Not Canon: The Tie-In Writer’s Dilemma David Mack 19 Feinting Forward, Barging Backward: Philosophical Analysis of Spock, Messiah! Anne Collins Smith and Owen M. Smith 37 Growing Up with Deep Space Nine: Recruiting New Fans and Teaching Ideology Through YA Literature Judith Clemens-Smucker 52 “300 full-color action scenes”: The Star Trek Fotonovels, Multimodal Storytelling as Paper Television? Caroline-Isabelle Caron 69 Putting the Romance Back into Space Opera Valerie Estelle Frankel 90 “The dream of stars”: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and the Star Trek Epic Geoffrey Reiter 107 Imzadi, (Almost) Happily Ever After and the Female Gothic Tradition Carey Millsap-Spears 124 The Tie-In Novels of History: Adaptation and Expansion in Diane Carey’s Star Trek Fiction Kristin Noone 141 “What’s in a life?” Grappling with Genre, Gender, and Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway Mareike Spychala 159 Wind-Riders, Divers, and Merry Whales: Vonda N. McIntyre’s Star Trek Novels Una McCormack 174 “The sheer unpredictability of the insane, demented galaxy”: Peter David’s New Frontier Novels Val Nolan 192 The Hurt and the Comfort in J.M. Dillard’s Mindshadow: Tie-In Novels and/as Fanfiction Agnieszka Urbańczyk 209 Surviving the Borg? Exploring Vengeance and Humanity in Peter David’s Vendetta Brian de Ruiter 226 Contaminated Community in Jean Lorrah’s The IDIC Epidemic Leah Faye Norris 243 Kira Nerys: Bajor and Beyond Sherry Ginn 255 A Coda on Coda Caroline-Isabelle Caron 266
Strange Novel Worlds Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction Edited by Caroline-Isabelle Caron with Kristin Noone 978-1-4766-9319-4 978-1-4766-53
I still can’t get over the fact that Misha looked at the title of my master’s thesis which has the word queerbaiting in it and said “I’m sure it condemns my behavior in some way”
Actually, sir, I’m a professional so I left my opinions out of this very professional and objective analysis of the show, thank you very much. 😂😂
