This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information
behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis …

This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher,
hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media …

Purpose Fanfiction communities are actively engaged in creating cultural products. These
large online communities have created and developed conventions that guide their …

Nederlandse literaire veld 1800-2000 (2006) verscheen, het boek waarin de Groningse
modern letterkundige Gillis J. Dorleijn en de Tilburgse cultuursocioloog Kees van Rees een …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to update and review the concept of warrant in Library
and Information Science (LIS) and to introduce the concept of epistemic warrant from …

Аннотация Современное состояние российского книговедения устойчиво
характеризуется специалистами как кризисное. При этом участники развернувшейся …

Purpose Despite the social, educational and therapeutic benefits of book clubs, little is
known about which books participants are likely to have read. In response, the purpose of …

This research investigates the information behaviour of cult media fan communities on the
internet, using three novel methods which have not previously been applied to this domain …

As practitioners of new forms of consumption and production, fans represent an important
area for research. Specifically, fans of “transmedia systems”–media‐hopping networks of …

ABSTRACT A questionnaire survey was administered to working-age adults who read for
leisure, with a focus on how public libraries supported this reading, in July 2021. The sample …