Open AccessDiving into the lacuna: Fan studies, methodologies, and mending the gaps
Author(s) -
Dawn Walls-Thumma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2020.1871
Subject(s) - scholarship , fandom , perception , sociology , aesthetics , visual arts , media studies , art , political science , epistemology , law , philosophy
With its autoethnographic tradition, fan studies research sometimes draws from similar intellectual and emotional impulses as the creation of fan works themselves, namely the perception of a lack and the need to repair that gap. Likewise, methodologies can intentionally or inadvertently respond to gaps in the scholarship.