Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Foundations
Chapter 1. What Does Fan Studies Feel Like? | Elise Vist, Milena Popova, and Julia E. Largent
Chapter 2. Naming Whiteness: Interrogating Fan Studies Methodologies | Rukmini Pande
Chapter 3. Transcultural Fan Studies as Methodology | Lori Morimoto
Chapter 4. “I Have a Picture of Them, Just DM Me”: When Ethical Netnography Endangers Lives | Renee Ann Drouin
Chapter 5. Don’t Try This at Home, Boys and Girls: Negotiating the Acafan Position | Katherine Larsen
Part 2. Ethnographic Methodologies
Chapter 6. Asking Fans Questions: The Ethnographic Interview | Benjamin Woo
Chapter 7. The Ephemeral Interview: Ethnograph-ish Methods for Time- and Place-Based Research at Fan Conventions | Anne Gilbert
Chapter 8. Scandalous Black Feminine Gaze(s): Critically Engaged Ethnography and Intersectional Fan Praxis on Tumblr | Kadian Pow
Chapter 9. Fan Studies’ Autoethnography: A Method for Self-Learning and Limit-Testing in Neoliberal Times? | Matt Hills
Part 3. Textual Analysis
Chapter 10. “They Took Our Jobs!”: Finding Fan History in Movie Magazines | Lies Lanckman
Chapter 11. Defining Fan Fiction: An Exercise in Archival and Historical Research Methods | Cait Coker
Chapter 12. The Dual Imagining: Afrofuturism, Queer Performance, and Black Cosplayers | Alex Thomas
Chapter 13. The Iconography of Fan Art | EJ Nielsen
Chapter 14. Into the Threshold: Analyzing Harry Potter Fan Activism Using a Threshold Concept Framework | Danielle Hart and Mandy Olejnik
Part 4. Platform, Industry, and Data-Driven Analyses
Chapter 15. Exploring How Fans Use Platforms: A Platform Studies Approach to Fan Studies Projects | Maria Alberto
Chapter 16. The Datafication of Fandom: Or How I Stopped Watching the DC Arrowverse on The CW and Learned to Mine Fanwork Metadata | Josh Stenger
Chatper 17. The Ethics of Exposure: Navigating Fannish Ethics, Industrial Agents, and Responsible Research Design | Lesley Willard and Suzanne Scott
Contributors
Index