Comments on: Readers, Tips, and Gratitude

By: adam m

adam m — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:10:10 +0000

hi Nancy,

Thought I’d leave a message here. I was in the same session with you at AoIR2006 (I was wearing the Residents t-shirt that you recognised).

I’ve been enjoying reading your posts. It may not be my research area, but I am a serious fan of music… Besides reading interesting blogs gives me a way to avoid working on my thesis ;)

All the best,

- adam m

By: JST

JST — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:25:16 +0000

I’m a doctoral candidate in Communication, studying popular media, play, and fan groups.

I’m interested in how you write about fandom as a fairly common process, not just limited to the hardcore folks making filk music and writing fan-fic. I suppose I’m more familiar with the research about how people find fandom central to identity, but that’s not necessarily the case for Trader Joe’s fans, for example. (And I suppose I hadn’t thought of that before.) I wonder how much these different degrees of involvement have in common, or whether they serve similar purposes for self-avowed fans of different types…

By: Howlin' Hobbit

Howlin' Hobbit — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:57:36 +0000

I read your blog regularly. I have it in Sage, a Firefox plugin RSS aggregator, so I don’t have to come here to check for new stuff. I mostly read it for the music fans aspect as I’m trying to increase my fanbase.

By: oracne

oracne — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:04:39 +0000

I read this blog on and off, mostly for the scholarship on media and sf/f fandom. I have a Master’s in anthropology and have done a fair amount of reading in the field, from the early work of Constance Penley Camille Bacon-Smith to Henry Jenkins and younger scholars like Will Brooker. I like seeing different perspectives on fandom, of which I am a part, though not very actively these days.