SALON: Emerging Phenomena in Fan Studies: A Student Perspective

This salon, populated by students in a Fall 2020 graduate seminar in fandom studies, spotlights research collaborations within the course, each of which explore fannish environments and practices in the context of 2020, a year of considerable upheaval, uncertainty, and cultural change.

Individual Discussants and Topics:

Gabriel Dominguez Partida & Nihar Sreepada, Doctoral Candidates, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, “Joker Fans: Exploring Affect, Identity, and Politics In and Around Todd Phillips’ Joker (2019)”

Phillipe Chauveau & Koji Yoshimura, Doctoral Students, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, “Interactivity and Transmedia Fan Practices”

Jessie Rogers, Doctoral Student, Department of English, Texas Tech University, Hannah Isett & Ali Kneisel, Masters Students, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University,“Streaming gender and gendered streaming”

(moderator: Paul Booth)


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