The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of fan studies and to point to new research directions.

The field of fan studies has seen exponential growth in recent years and this companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to point to new research directions. Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats and incorporating a variety of methodologies, this collection is organized into six main sections: methods and ethics, technologies and practices, identities, race and transcultural fandom, industry, and futures. Each section concludes with a conversation among some of the field's leading scholars and industry insiders to address a wealth of questions relevant to each section topic.

Section One: Methods and Ethics

Section Introduction

1. The Ethics of Studying Online Fandom

Kristina Busse

2. Always-On Fandom, Waiting, and Bingeing: Psychoanalysis as an Engagement with Fans' "Infra-ordinary" Experiences

Matt Hills

3. Archaeologies of Fandom: Using Historical Methods to Explore Fan Cultures of the Past

Kathy Fuller-Seeley

4. Surveying Fandom: The Ethics, Design and Use of Surveys in Fan Studies

Lucy Bennett

5. Approaches to Understanding Identity: Gamers, Fans, and Research Methods

Libby Hemphill, Carly A. Kocurek, and Xi Rao

6. Vidding and/as Pedagogy

Katherine E. Morrissey

7. Fannish Identities and Scholarly Responsibilities: A Conversation

Will Brooker, Mark Duffett, and Karen Hellekson

Section Two: Technologies and Practices

Section Introduction

8. The Fan Fiction Gold Rush, Generational Turnover, and the Battle for Fandom's Soul

Mel Stanfill

9. Tumblr Fan Aesthetics

Louisa Stein

10. Fan Tourism and Pilgrimage

Rebecca Williams

11. Fan Curators and Gateways into Fandom

Derek Kompare

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

Bob Rehak

13. "We're not There": Fans, Fan Studies and the Participatory Continuum

Rhiannon Bury

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

Whitney Phillips

15. Music Fandom in the Digital Age: A Conversation

Nancy Baym, Daniel Cavicchi, and Norma Coates

Section Three: Identities

Section Introduction

16. The Queer Politics of Femslash

Julie Levin Russo

17. (Un)covering Masculinities in Cover Song Videos

Frederik Dhaenens

18. "He's a Real Man's Man": Pro Wrestling and Negotiations of Contemporary Masculinity

Sam Ford

19. Everyday Costume: Feminized Fandom, Retail, and Beauty Culture

Elizabeth Affuso

20. The Invasion of Loki's Army? Understanding Comic Culture's Increasing Awareness of Female Fans

Matthew A. Cicci

21. Accessing Fan Cultures: Disability, Digital Media, and Dreamwidth

Elizabeth Ellcessor

22. Class, Capital and Collecting in Media Fandom

Lincoln Geraghty

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

Vivi Theodoropoulou

24. Vidding and Identity: A Conversation

Francesca Coppa, Alexis Lothian, and Tisha Turk

Section Four: Race and Transcultural Fandom

Section Introduction

25. The Invisible Bag of Holding: Whiteness and Media Fandom

Benjamin Woo

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

Kristen J. Warner

27. Filipinos' Forced Fandom of U. S. Media: Protests against The Daily Show and Desperate Housewives as Bids for Cultural Citizenship

Abigail De Kosnik

28. Charting Latinx Fandom

Jillian M. Báez

29. Transnational Media Fan Studies

Lori Morimoto

30. Exploring Local Fandom: Celebrities' Fans in the Global-Local Nexus

Hilde Van den Bulck

31. Advancing Transcultural Fandom: A Conversation

Bertha Chin, Aswin Punathambekar, and Sangita Shresthova

Section Five: Industry

Section Introduction

32. The Bigger Picture: Drawing Intersections Between Comics, Fan, and Industry Studies

Alisa Perren and Laura Felschow

33. Conspicuous Convention: Industry Interpellation and Fan Consumption at San Diego Comic-Con

Anne Gilbert

34. Fans and Merchandise

Avi Santo

35. Fannish Affect, "Quality" Fandom, and Transmedia Storytelling Campaigns

Melanie Kohnen

36. "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

37. Platform Fandom

Jeremy Wade Morris

38. Industry/Fan Relations: A Conversation

Ivan Askwith, Britta Lundin, and Aja Romano

Section Six: Futures of Fan Studies

Section Introduction

39. Negotiating Fandom: The Politics of Racebending

Henry Jenkins

40. 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