Oh, and thanks for the rec! Yes, at this point I'm more concerned with gathering data about the contents of fanworks, but I will definitely need to look deeper into fan studies later on. I focus on documenting the contents of fanworks right now because a) there's very little usable data on this, particularly on the dojinshi side, so I can make a good contribution here and b) I've seen many faily attempts at researching 'fan behaviour' while in fandom and don't want to open that particular can of worms until I'm a bit more mature as a scholar.
Another one for the mile-long 'to read' list... Yey? I really need three months off from absolutely everything so I can just read some bloody books :)
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:04 pm (UTC)Another one for the mile-long 'to read' list... Yey? I really need three months off from absolutely everything so I can just read some bloody books :)