2016 fan studies conference paper on three stages of fandom
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@LizaPottsDirector of WIDE Research Center and Associate Professor
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
The Sign of Three in Fandoms:Fan Memory of Sherlock/Holmes Fans in London
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Participatory Memory
Participatory Memory =
Participatory Culture +
Collective Memory
Investigating physical and digital
public spaces of memory,
celebration, and reflection
created
by / for fans
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Participatory Memory Projects
Learning from fandoms in spaces they inhabit
Understanding the Experience of Fans in these Spaces
Examining the Three Stages of Fan Activity
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How / Where We Do Our Research
Exploring Spaces of Fan Participatory Memory
Studying At/With Through Fan Cons
Learning Through Study Abroad
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2016 Study Abroad Focused on Cultures and Storytelling (fandom)
2013-16 College of Arts & Letters Undergraduate Research Initiative
2014 Research Study Abroad to London / Paris
Kelly Turner, Emily Dallaire, Katie Grimes, Lizzie Oderkirk, Shell Little
Student Researchers Are A Key Part of WIDE’s Work
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Ah, but Sherlock…Holmes?
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Three Stages of Fandom as observed in
Participatory Memory sites
Speaking to Producers
Acknowledging Each Other
Making Fiction, Art, Artifacts, Orgs
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Fan Site Visits from 2003-2016
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Participatory Memory: Stage 1
Fans Speaking to Producers
“Public commemoration is a form of history-making, yet, it can
also be a contested form of remembrance in which cultural
memories slide through and into each other, merging and then
disengaging in a narrative triangle”
- Marita Sturken in “The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial” from the Visual Cultural Reader, Ed. Mirzoeff, Routledge 1998.
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Stage 1: Fans Speaking to Producers
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Participatory Memory: Stage 2
Fans Acknowledging Each Other
“Memory – relating past and present – is thus the central faculty of
being in time, through which we define individual and collective
selves”
- Jeffrey K. Olic, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy in “Introduction” from
the Collective Memory Reader, Oxford 2011.
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Stage 2: Fans Acknowledging Each Other
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Stage 2: Fans Acknowledging Each Other
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Participatory Memory: Stage 3
Fans Making Fiction, Art, Artifacts, Organizations
“It is only through narrative that we know ourselves as active
entities that operate through time”
- H. Porter Abbott in The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative 2002.
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Stage 3: Fans Making, Organizing
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Stage 3: Fans Making, Organizing
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Thank you!
Liza PottsAssociate Professor and Director of WIDE Research Center
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Michigan State University, Michigan, [email protected] @LizaPotts
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Scholarship: Digital Projects
Undergraduate Researchers (and grads!):
Emily Dallaire, Kelly Turner, Katie Grimes
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Significance
Egg
Toast
Plate Field(s) of Study
Phenomenon / Example
Big, Generalizable Idea
Experience Architecture,
Internet Studies, Fan Studies
What happens when participatory culture
and collective memory collide across
physical and digital spaces
Doctor Who/Torchwood,
Sherlock, Harry Potter, Princess Di
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Michigan
State
University's
WIDE
Research
Center
Our Projects:
Participatory and Visible
Intentionally Inclusive
Oriented Towards Social Justice
in our Research, Methods, and
Making