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Journal of Fandom Studies 12.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Fandom Studies 12.1 is out now!

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Aims & Scope

Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. We focus on the critical exploration, within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures, of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film, music, television, sports and gaming).

Issue 12.1

Articles

Tolkien fanzines, fandom and the literary tradition in the 1960s

MARK WISNIEWSKI

Reconstructive nostalgia in later life fandom

JOSEPH ANDREW SMITH

Technoliberalism for the people: Popular discourses about governance on Archive of Our Own

MICHA ELSNER

Fandom identification and in-person activities as mediators of the association between cosplay and psychological well-being

CONNOR E. LESHNER, STEPHEN REYSEN, COURTNEY N. PLANTE, SHARON E. ROBERTS AND KATHLEEN C. GERBASI

‘We know Charlie’: A case of epistolary education and brave space in The Perks of Being a Wallflower fanfiction

AMBER MOORE