Open AccessHow to do things with fan subs: Media engagement as subcultural capital in anime fan subbing
Author(s) -
Douglas Schules
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2014.0512
Subject(s) - fandom , anime , scholarship , advertising , capital (architecture) , media studies , sociology , fan in , political science , art , visual arts , engineering , business , computer science , law , artificial intelligence , electrical engineering
Anime fandom has been a fairly constant subject in fan scholarship, although only recently have conversations about fan subbing begun to circulate. As useful as those conversations are, none have directly dealt either with the mechanisms of fan subbing, particularly the use of linear notes, as a practice or with how these subs intersect with the flows of subcultural capital. Fan subbing, both as a productive and a consumptive practice, plays a small but influential part in subcultural capital. Engagement with media is a compositional element of such capital in this community