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• Fieldguide
  

  Fannish self-perpetuation versus producer self-interest

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  Karen Hellekson Independent Scholar

  November 21, 2016

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  Fannish self-perpetuation versus producer self-interest Fans are members of a community that exists to self-perpetuate. What motivates them is engagement—engagement with one another, and engagement with the object of fannish passion, be it TV, film, anime ...
• In Media Res
  

  Making Use Of: Online Fan Fiction Spaces

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  Karen Hellekson Independent Scholar

  May 25, 2015

  Making Use Of: Online Fan Fiction Spaces gift fan writing fan fiction Curator's Note Fans have always made use of—that is, taken what is at hand and repurposed it to their own ends, often to disseminate creative artworks like fan fiction: blogs are r ...
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  Sharing academic work online

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  Karen Hellekson Independent Scholar

  March 05, 2013

  3 comments

  Sharing academic work online I'd like to focus on the stakes of sharing academic blog posts and papers online.* In academic writing, blog posts aren't considered CV-worthy publications because they aren't peer reviewed and because they are ...
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  Academic communities and journal publishing

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  Karen Hellekson Independent Scholar

  February 07, 2013

  2 comments

  Academic communities and journal publishing   As a founding coeditor of the online-only media/fan studies journal,  Transformative Works and Cultures,  I was on the team that had to make many decisions to launch the journal. I was not initially behind the ...