Loving Fanfiction

Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-89685-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online fanfiction. Through exploring fans’ narratives about themselves and the fanwork they produce and consume, the author theorizes how identity, cognition, emotion, the body, and embodiment come together in literacy development and practices.

Drawing on affect theory to explore the complex roles of emotions, literacy, identity, and the digital, both in their own position and in the worlds of engaged fans, Brit Kelley systematically analyses work from a six-year ethnographic study across fandoms—from Harry Potter and WWE, to Gotham and Twilight. Their analysis expands upon current understandings of fandom by more thoroughly theorizing the deeply emotional element of fanfiction practices, and connects to the academic fan community to draw connections and implications for the role of emotion in teaching and research.

This unique perspective on emotions, love, and fandoms will be of significant interest to scholars and students of media and communication studies, fan studies, literature, creative writing, cultural studies, digital humanities, and literacy studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelley, Brit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Emotioned Research Methods— The Ethics of Online Fanfiction Research 2. Emotion Economies: The Complex Emotional Nexus that Makes Online Fanfiction Work 3. Fanfiction on the Margins: Fanfiction as Feminised and Racialised Practice 4. Fanfiction—A Family Affair? 5. Family, Friends, and Desire: lilo’s Emotioned Fan Literacy 6. Growing Out (?) of Fanfiction: madshrubbery’s journey from fanfic to o-fic 7. Conclusion: Emotioned Literacy Practices

Über Autor(innen)

Brit Kelley is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis.