Re: rambling on methodshederahelixApril 16 2007, 15:56:48 UTC
Okay, I still have nothing profound to say because of work, but *now* I know where I remember your name from. It's that icon which is fabulous!
I think your response above--the perusing of a very large sample of flists--is a really good way to give specific evidence that there was a pattern of response that played out a certain way.
And yes, the discussion did have far more staying power than many other topics. I'm wondering how much of that was this particular conversation (about race in SGA and particular trends) and how much was that fandom itself had been buidling toward a head on this topicc.
I mean, I'd been thinking about race in fandom almost since the very beginning. One of my RPS fandoms had a character who was Filipino and I was distrubed by the way that he got exoticized by a lot of writers. I said so, and people were like, no we're not. You know, the usual.
But it does seem like, at least in the circles I travel in, fandom as a whole has been having a more in-depth conversation about this than usual. I base this not on anything a quantitative scientist would approve of as methodology but on the fact that there have been panels on this--well attended panels that ran well past their allotted time, at each of the slash conventions I went to last year--BASCon, Escapade, and Con.Txt.
I think your response above--the perusing of a very large sample of flists--is a really good way to give specific evidence that there was a pattern of response that played out a certain way.
And yes, the discussion did have far more staying power than many other topics. I'm wondering how much of that was this particular conversation (about race in SGA and particular trends) and how much was that fandom itself had been buidling toward a head on this topicc.
I mean, I'd been thinking about race in fandom almost since the very beginning. One of my RPS fandoms had a character who was Filipino and I was distrubed by the way that he got exoticized by a lot of writers. I said so, and people were like, no we're not. You know, the usual.
But it does seem like, at least in the circles I travel in, fandom as a whole has been having a more in-depth conversation about this than usual. I base this not on anything a quantitative scientist would approve of as methodology but on the fact that there have been panels on this--well attended panels that ran well past their allotted time, at each of the slash conventions I went to last year--BASCon, Escapade, and Con.Txt.
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