Portfolio #8

Diana Floegel’s guest lecture on fandom and participatory culture examined some issues in online fandom spaces, and it was…

Portfolio Assignment 8

This week’s guest lecture on critical perspectives on fandom and participatory culture was fascinating. I only had a brief understanding of what fan fiction is and so the various topics discussed in the lecture were basically all new to me. I found the issue of non-native English-speaking…

Portfolio Assignment #8

From Floegel’s (2020) lecture, I learned that there can be “cliques” in online fandoms. They also mentioned how people of color typically “don’t feel like they have a fandom community” (Floegel, 2020). This experience is different for white people as they feel that they do (Floegel…

Portfolio Assignment #8

Part 1

In this lecture about critical perspectives on fandom and participatory culture, I…

Portfolio #8

As a straight, white, woman, I can only speak to experiences of mistreatment against my gender. In that regard, I can list seemingly countless examples of sexism and harassment in my life, but the majority of them were not mediated. This week shined a light on the misrepresentation and poor treatment of…

Portfolio Assignment #8

What I learned from this week’s lecture is that the internet is a dark place. It’s a place that allows anything and…

Portfolio Assignment #8

Overall this week I got a glimpse of how constructed concepts like gender and fandom operates so invariably within different spaces, and can even mean different things when dissecting it with intersectionality in mind. Within the spectrum of how we perceive fandom within different…

Portfolio #8

The lectures this week touched on topics that I had minor background knowledge in. But, they were each able to provide the proper language and nuance that I hadn’t known previously. For example, I grew up in the era of Tumblr forums being used as a fanfic publishing site. But I never considered how…

Portfolio 8

Fan-Fiction is something I have never been interested in, but our guest lecturer taught me much about it that I never knew. I found it interesting that it is looked down upon by many people, not just their work, but the actual fans themselves. People are so discriminated against just for a creative…