So are you going to address the theories of What Makes Those People Write That for your presentation, or focus on other things?
As currently planned, it's basically an hour of "here's what media fandom is" and an hour of "here's the kind of academic stuff that gets written on it/topics that are/can be explored." I think I'll probably mention the theories, but also bring up that fandom itself is kind of in a "'cause we like it" phase. Actually, one thing I really want to address is the difference between the scholar-fan and the outside scholar, and how so much outside scholarship is still kind of in the "what's up with that?" phase, while scholar-fans are getting into really interesting, meaty stuff.
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Date: 2005-08-13 05:28 pm (UTC)As currently planned, it's basically an hour of "here's what media fandom is" and an hour of "here's the kind of academic stuff that gets written on it/topics that are/can be explored." I think I'll probably mention the theories, but also bring up that fandom itself is kind of in a "'cause we like it" phase. Actually, one thing I really want to address is the difference between the scholar-fan and the outside scholar, and how so much outside scholarship is still kind of in the "what's up with that?" phase, while scholar-fans are getting into really interesting, meaty stuff.