Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

harder to get a comprehensive sense of a fandom and harder still to build a truly inclusive sense of community.

emotional investment of the individual fan and the relationship between a fan's investment in her fannish objects of desire and her psychological and cultural identity construction.

"the place-making practices within postmodernism in which queer people engage"

one could define fan

allow users to shield their names and other features, thus constructing a level of remove

Her repeated emphasis on her own affective relation to slash is indicative of a move in fan studies to acknowledge and address the unanalyzable, unexplainable, and often unspeakable excess of pleasure

textual considerations come after discussions of cultural reception, and production issues still focus on the "primary" media text.'

At the same time, the performance, by revealing this lack, reveals also a potentially infinite series of future performances providing further supplementation"

movement of fandomfrom a physical space to a virtual one has not adequately been addressed in the academic literature.