Affect in Fandom

Fan Creators and Productivity

9789463725668

268 pages

Amsterdam University Press

Hardback $144.00

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Overview

This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis and design costumes. This international collection offers a diverse exploration of contemporary fan practices through different cases, such as Yuri!!! On ICE, Harry Potter and Mass Effect.

This book reveals how expression, emotion and agency are central to fan activity. Fans are highly adept at transmedia, as well as the critical use of different media and platforms. Fandom can apply to wider concepts within new media, the humanities and design, as the authors in this collection show. They also rely on different approaches, ranging from textual analysis to different forms of ethnography. Overall, Affect in Fandom offers a deliberately diverse exploration of exactly what contemporary fans create and curate, and how.

Author Bio

PhD student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland where she teaches a course on fanfiction. Her academic interests lie within fan culture, and her research focuses on fanfiction and fannish affect. She is the author of papers on queering fanfiction, fan writing as a myth-making practice and retelling of space. Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is senior lecturer at Creative Business, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. Lamerichs holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect and creativity in fan cultures. She has published on fandom, media culture and cosplay. Dr. Litt. Agata Zarzycka is Assistant Professor at the University of Wroc.aw. Her interests include game studies, biopolitics and identity. She has published two monographs: Socialized Fiction: Role-Playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice (2009) and A Goth Reflection: Self-Fashioning and Popular Culture (2019).