Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
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
Kristina Busse • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
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Fandom, on the other hand, pins you in your body, because it disallows you from pretending you are “nowhere” in relation to your subject. Fandom admits care, attachment, and dedication. For Fisher, as for me, fan-love might take up the traditional tools of intellectual critique—say, exposition and analysis of a text—but the writer herself is always... See more
Elvia Wilk • Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion
has resolved to look "closely at the language" and at "the [fannish] group's linguistic play"