Hjälp till med akademisk forskning om Europeisk fandom
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Hi :)
My name is Kristina Busse, and I am coeditor of *Transformative Works and Cultures* (TWC, journal.transformativeworks.org), an Open Access, online only, peerreviewed academic journal on fan works and fan cultures. We were founded as part of the fan advocacy nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW, transformativeworks.org) and as a result the journal contains a section called Symposium that is attempting to connect academic and fannish writing. These shorter editorially reviewed essays are ideal for academics to present brief ideas or for fans to write within the more academic space of the journal.
So here is my request: if any of you are interested in sharing your country’s fannish history with a fannish and academic audience, we’d love to publish that. I am looking in particular for history overviews for our forthcoming European fandom special issue. I would love to have short overviews of different countries, their specific randoms, and/or the randoms surrounding a given language. As a German, I know that I grew up on things few people outside of Germany have ever heard of, but every German gets reminiscent. There are German fan fiction archives, both for German shows and books but also for international texts.
The essays shouldn’t be too long (1500-2500 words) and obviously can’t be comprehensive but should showcase the particularities and interesting idiosyncrasies of your fandom. We publish in English only, but we always invite coauthorship (in case one of you has all the info and someone else wants to help translate). In general, symposium essays don't demand citations, tend to be focused around one central idea, and are editorially reviewed. If you want a sense of the range of Symposium essays, you can have a look at the journal. We just published our 15th issue on fan labor and have a forthcoming issue (June 2014) on materiality.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me about the journal or OTW or the special issue.
Best,
Kristina
Kristina Busse
kbusse2 [at] gmail.com
kristinabusse.com
Editor, Transformative Works and Cultures
editor [at] transformativeworks.org
Hi :)
My name is Kristina Busse, and I am coeditor of *Transformative Works and Cultures* (TWC, journal.transformativeworks.org), an Open Access, online only, peerreviewed academic journal on fan works and fan cultures. We were founded as part of the fan advocacy nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW, transformativeworks.org) and as a result the journal contains a section called Symposium that is attempting to connect academic and fannish writing. These shorter editorially reviewed essays are ideal for academics to present brief ideas or for fans to write within the more academic space of the journal.
So here is my request: if any of you are interested in sharing your country’s fannish history with a fannish and academic audience, we’d love to publish that. I am looking in particular for history overviews for our forthcoming European fandom special issue. I would love to have short overviews of different countries, their specific randoms, and/or the randoms surrounding a given language. As a German, I know that I grew up on things few people outside of Germany have ever heard of, but every German gets reminiscent. There are German fan fiction archives, both for German shows and books but also for international texts.
The essays shouldn’t be too long (1500-2500 words) and obviously can’t be comprehensive but should showcase the particularities and interesting idiosyncrasies of your fandom. We publish in English only, but we always invite coauthorship (in case one of you has all the info and someone else wants to help translate). In general, symposium essays don't demand citations, tend to be focused around one central idea, and are editorially reviewed. If you want a sense of the range of Symposium essays, you can have a look at the journal. We just published our 15th issue on fan labor and have a forthcoming issue (June 2014) on materiality.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me about the journal or OTW or the special issue.
Best,
Kristina
Kristina Busse
kbusse2 [at] gmail.com
kristinabusse.com
Editor, Transformative Works and Cultures
editor [at] transformativeworks.org