Dear All,
This is my first post to the list so please forgive me if I'm stepping on any toes. I like Cornel's idea in large part because it mirrors my own. My students and I have been working on a similar project since the beginning of last semester and hope to make it available online by next January. We're setting it up as a searchable annotated bibliography. The tags are, indeed, the rough spot, and we already have several hundred items to go through in our list. Our focus has bee anime, manga, and the related fandoms. Seeing this thread, especially the zotero postings, may make our work redundant.
That said, if I can help in any way, I'd like to. Heaven knows I need to keep my students busy.
Also, if anyone can tell me how to correct a misspelling of my name on an item someone else added to the zotero "fans of Japanese media" section I would appreciate it. Thank you.
J. Holder Bennett, MA
Associate Professor of History
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I second (third?) Cornel idea, too. It would be great to have an online resource--collectively maintained rather than centralised, because that would be an insane workload for whoever draws the short straw and has to maintain it.
I have no strong preference in terms of which technology, as long it's easy for people to contribute and use: at a minimum, I'd like functions for annotating, tagging, compiling/downloading select bibliographic entries, etc. Zotero seems fine, but I am no great expert: like Nina, I am late to the tagging party. The AO3 system of tagging seems to work well, but that's because there's a huge amount of taxonomical work in the background. The usual issues of resources, upkeep, standards, inclusivity also apply...
However, maybe we could keep it simple and expedient, and use the Zotero group Nina mentioned? https://www.zotero.org/groups/fan_studies_bibliography/items
At some point I was feeding entries, but I confess I haven't kept up. (To be pedantic, I was adding to this page http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=42 which then went into Zotero)
Mafalda
Mafalda Stasi, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media
Department of Media and Communication
School of Art & Design
Coventry University
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Sent: 28 June 2012 00:09
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Subject: Re: Reading list project
Cornel, i think this is a brilliant idea! i think at some point TWC was trying to organize a Zotero bib, but so far we've only managed a vidding scholarship one and a repository of all TWC essays.
I wonder whether a collective online database that allows tagging might be a better idea, though, than sorting under headings. (As much as I dislike tagging, i've begun to realize that i never can find anything I've organized, because I've forgotten which heading and subheading I thought was correct, or, coming to it later, I want the essay for a very different purpose and can't find it under that heading).
I still dread Zotero, but some of the folks who live on online bib databases might be able to jump in?
Best,
Kristina
PS: And then the question, of course, is do we want rec or comprehensive. Your reading list sounds more like the former and I always tend to go for the latter...and then inevitably give up and/or fail :)
On 6/27/2012 8:50 AM, Cornel Sandvoss wrote:
Dear all,
I was making a list of things to do for the summer which included updating my reading list for the two modules I am teaching on fans and audiences and I was wondering if there was any interest to - in the best Jenkins/Lévy tradition of collective intelligence - create a joint online resource to which we can all add our publications under relevant subheadings. I will have included much of your work in my current module handbooks anyway, but I am sure it's not as comprehensive as it could be.
If there is interest, could those of you who do teach fan/audience modules send me the headings for the themes they feature on their reading lists and I will do my best to sort and group them meaningfully and then send circulate the heading so that everyone can add their own work to the areas they feel is relevant?
Let me know if there is any interest.
Cornel
P.S. Failing that, feel free to send me details of any of your publications over the last year.
Dr Cornel Sandvoss
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
tel.: + 44/ 1483 / 68 99 59
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/staff/csandvoss/index.html
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Subject: Re: Fans and Identification
I haven't seen anyone rec the classic "Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society" by Richard Dyer (2003?) which has a chapters on Monroe, Paul Robeson, and Judy Garland and fan identification of them--so obv. gender, race, sexuality.
FC
On Jun 27, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Lincoln Geraghty wrote:
Hi Melissa
I would recommend looking out for this collection:
K. Egan and S. Thomas (eds), The Cult of Personality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012).
It would seem yo fit what you need. Cult stars and their fans.
Best,
Lincoln.
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>>> "Click, Melissa A." <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 26/06/2012 22:23 >>>
Hi folks,
I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a project I'm working on. I'm looking for studies about fans' identification with their fan-objects (in my case, a celebrity). Specifically, I am having trouble locating studies that (a) examine how disenfranchised or marginalized fans identify with celebrities (or characters) and subsequently build emotional ties or (b) examine how fans imbue a particular celebrity (or character) with maternal or mentor-like qualities.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
Melissa
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