Some Great Resources for Aca-Fannish Work–Part IV: Moving Image Scholarship
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Some Great Resources for Aca-Fannish Work–Part IV: Moving Image Scholarship
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I washed my face and hands before I come, I did fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2026/02/22/i...
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part III: Archival Resources
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Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part II: Book Series
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Another Transformative Approach to Fan Identity fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2026/01/25/a...
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals
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A Transformative Aporoach to Fan Identity fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2026/01/12/a...
In this past calendar year, we kept telling you about research we found interesting. Now, a prompt for you: what has been the meta, research paper, book, any text discussing fandom that caught your attention this year? Let us discuss!
Fan commercial power: is there such a thing? fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2025/12/15/f...
Affective ownership and modern copyright fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2025/11/30/a...
We have released our free zine on Fandom Friendship!
See inside for stories of the bonding capabilities of Superwholock and K-pop, what happens when you move in with someone you met online, fanfiction forums, and more.
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“You can go totally wild in making him be whatever you want”: Anna Wilson on affect
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Fanfiction as Performative Criticism: Harry Potter Racebending
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I Love This Hellsite–(no, not this one, the other one!) rb.gy/uf05ky
Fandom, Fanzines, and Archiving Science Fiction Fannish History – Fanhackers, shorturl.at/Colps
All New, All Different? : A History of Race and the American Superhero – Fanhackers. rb.gy/cbps58
The social life of bookmark tags fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2025/07/22/t...
In Praise of a Classic Text: Understanding Comics Part II rb.gy/pt65g4
In Praise of a Classic Text: Understanding Comics – Part I – Fanhackers
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Acafannish Sampler: Otherwise Titled, “Three Things Make a Post”
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Totally agree, though it depends how you're defining fanfiction. In the broadest sense: yes, absolutely! But if you're tracing more specific characteristics, you can chart interesting *particular* histories back through the broader history of storytelling, if you follow me. --Francesca
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom
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