https://www.inverse.com/article/20380-scholar-fans-fandom-academia-buffy-whedonverse
Fandom is driven by passion. A love for a film, a book, a TV show, or an artist tends to bring people together to discuss, to create, to dissect, or even to study.
And though the word “fandom” often evokes images of comic-cons and cosplay, it has roots in much more than just a shared nerding-out over a work. In fact, there’s a whole community of academics who study fandom and popular texts within the context of their cultural and societal impact. They’ve been called a number of different names by a number of different scholars, but Dr. Tanya Cochran uses“scholar-fans” to describe these academics.
“As a scholar-fan, part of what fuels my fandom is what I consider fun in critiquing it,” says Cochran. “‘How does it work? What does it mean? What do we do with these stories that are so powerful in our lives, that we love so much? How do they really impact us, how do they get under our skin and become a part of who we are in the world?’”
Actually a pretty decent article about what constitutes being worthy of study.
Fandom is driven by passion. A love for a film, a book, a TV show, or an artist tends to bring people together to discuss, to create, to dissect, or even to study.
And though the word “fandom” often evokes images of comic-cons and cosplay, it has roots in much more than just a shared nerding-out over a work. In fact, there’s a whole community of academics who study fandom and popular texts within the context of their cultural and societal impact. They’ve been called a number of different names by a number of different scholars, but Dr. Tanya Cochran uses“scholar-fans” to describe these academics.
“As a scholar-fan, part of what fuels my fandom is what I consider fun in critiquing it,” says Cochran. “‘How does it work? What does it mean? What do we do with these stories that are so powerful in our lives, that we love so much? How do they really impact us, how do they get under our skin and become a part of who we are in the world?’”
Actually a pretty decent article about what constitutes being worthy of study.
