Affect in Fandom

Fan Creators and Productivity
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-566-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Transmedia

This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis and design costumes. This international collection offers a diverse exploration of contemporary fan practices through different cases, such as Yuri! On ICE, Harry Potter and Mass Effect.

This book reveals how expression, emotion and agency are central to fan activity. Fans are highly adept at transmedia, as well as the critical use of different media and platforms. Fandom can apply to wider concepts within new media, the humanities and design, as the authors in this collection show. They also rely on different approaches, ranging from textual analysis to different forms of ethnography. Overall, Affect in Fandom offers a deliberately diverse exploration of exactly what contemporary fans create and curate, and how.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ciesielska, Dominika

Lamerichs, Nicolle

Zarzycka, Agata

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Literary Production

1. Dominika Ciesielska – Fanfiction: Canon and Character-building in Alternate Universes

2. Elizaveta Kasilova – Reinterpreting Archetypes in Russian Harry Potter Fanfiction

3. Peng Qiao – Fans and Their Utterances in the Communications Circuit of Chinese Internet Literature

Part 2: Characters and Play

4. Nicolle Lamerichs – Sustainable Fandom: A Virtual Ethnography of Sustainable Cosplay and Material Culture on Instagram

5. Joleen Blom – The Turmoil of Dating Game Characters: False Promises of Agency in Genshin Impact

6. Agata Zarzycka – Consumable Heroes: Fanfiction and Biopolitics

Part 3: Affect and Time

7. Ross Garner – Curating Popular Dinosaur Ephemera: Reflections on the “Aca-Fan Archivist” and Sub/cultural Capital

8. Matt Hills – Fan Temporalities in/of the Archive: Tenet and Timescapes of “Fast Fandom” among Christopher Nolan Fans

9. Melanie Bourdaa – Archives, Preservation and Database: Creating the Cultural Memory of Fandom

10. Agnieszka Urbanczyk – Crossing the Divide: Shitposting as a Mode of Fan Production

Part 4: History and Romance

11. Aldona Kobus – In Defence of Popular Culture: Affect and Engagement in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

12. Madeleine Span – Fanning the Popular Romance Genre: Readers as Fans on the Contemporary Book Market

13. Micha. Mochocki – Historical Settings as Transmedia Storyworlds

Abstracts, keywords and authors’ bios

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lamerichs, Nicolle
Nicolle Lamerichs (PhD) is a senior lecturer at creative business at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Netherlands). Lamerichs holds a PhD in media studies from Maastricht University (2014). In her book Productive Fandom (2018), she explores intermediality, affect, and creativity in fan cultures. She has published on fandom, media culture, and cosplay

Ciesielska, Dominika
Dominika Ciesielska (PhD) is affiliated to the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Her academic interests lie within fan culture, and her research focuses on fanfiction and fannish affect. She is the author of papers on queering fanfiction, fan writing as a myth-making practice, and the retelling of space.

Zarzycka, Agata
Agata Zarzycka (PhD) is an assistant professor at the University of Wroc.aw (Poland). Her interests include game studies, biopolitics, and identity. She has published two monographs: Socialized Fiction: Role-playing Games as a Multidimensional Space of Interaction between Literary Theory and Practice (2009) and A Goth Reflection: Self-fashioning and Popular Culture (2019).