This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen
media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly …

Marginally Fannish explores the ways in which fan podcasts act as sites of public pedagogy,
specifically focusing on how these spaces offer opportunities for fans to express and access …

This chapter considers the role of context in how we make sense of fanvids. First, I argue that
fandom functions as a cognitive ecology, a dynamic meaning-making cognitive system in …

For the past three decades, fan productions, and especially remix creations produced by
women for women have gotten more academic interest. For instance, many scholars have …

Recent scholarly accounts have noted the increasing slippage between feminism, digital
cultures, and popular culture, yet few have located media fandom at this juncture. While …

It was a usual school day in 2008, when I was a tenth-grade student in Beijing, China. A
female friend sent me a poorly edited text file. It was a web fiction that she enjoyed, which …

This paper studies a unique (transformative) media form born out of fannish engagements,
commonly known as fan-made videos or vids. Vids are fan-produced short edits of existing …

Abstract Thinking Through Fandom is a phenomenological study of fans' thinking, writing,
and reading practices and the collectives that form through them. This dissertation draws on …