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Fan Worlds: Expanding the Horizons of Fandoms and Fan Studies

Authors: Taylor, Leslie;

Fan Worlds: Expanding the Horizons of Fandoms and Fan Studies

Abstract

Le domaine des études de fans a connu plusieurs transformations en sémantique et dialectique depuis sa conception dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Cependant, il est trop tard pour une révolution complète dans la façon dont les érudits conceptualisent les fans et les fandoms. Matt Hills (2017) présente le concept théorique des mondes de fans pour élargir notre réflexion sur ce qui constitue un fan ou une communauté de fans. L’auteur s’appuie sur le concept de Hills des mondes de fans pour l’introduire comme un moyen de cartographier et d’orienter l’espace en utilisant les pratiques qui forment un lien affectif entre un sujet fan et un objet fan. Cette cartographie de l'espace est visualisée à travers les médias sociaux, ce qui rend lisibles les relations qui se forment entre les fans, les objets de fans et les institutions médiatiques. En utilisant les médias sociaux, les problèmes d'accessibilité, d'anonymat, d'économie et de zones de contact transculturelles peuvent être identifiés et cartographiés dans le monde des fans. De plus, les médias sociaux forment également une infrastructure qui relie les espaces du monde des fans les uns aux autres et le monde dans son ensemble aux autres mondes des fans. Les spécialistes des études de fans devraient adopter le concept de mondes de fans dans leurs propres projets et continuer à cartographier les systèmes mondiaux qui existent autour des objets de fans

The field of fan studies has gone through several transformations in semantics and dialectics since its conception in the latter half of the 20th century. However, it is overdue for a complete revolution in the way that scholars conceptualize fans and fandoms. Matt Hills (2017) introduces the theoretical concept of fan worlds to expand our thinking on what constitutes a fan or fan community. The author builds on Hills’ concept of fan worlds to introduce it as a way of mapping and orienting space using the practices that form an affective bond between a fan subject and fan object. This mapping of space is visualized through social media, which renders legible the relationships that form between fans, fan objects, and media institutions. Using social media, issues of accessibility, anonymity, economy, and transcultural contact zones can be identified and mapped into the fan world. In turn, social media also forms infrastructure that connects spaces within the fan world to one another and the world as a whole to other fan worlds. Scholars of fan studies should adopt the concept of fan worlds within their own projects and continue to map out the world systems that exist around fan objects

Lamarre, Thomas (Supervisor1)

Gvili, Gal (Supervisor2)

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Canada
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East Asian Studies

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