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Journal of Fandom Studies 8.1 is now available! 

Special Issue: ‘Spaces of Fandom: Critical Reflections on Fan Events and Tourism’

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Aims & Scopes

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 8.1

Editorial

Spaces of fandom: Critical reflections on fan events and tourism

KARL SPRACKLEN AND IAN R. LAMOND

Articles

Theorizing comic cons

BENJAMIN WOO, BRIAN JOHNSON, BART BEATY AND MIRANDA CAMPBELL

Narrating absence: Fan con events and the commodification of leisure

IAN R. LAMOND

Productive leisure in post-Fordist fandom

ALEENA CHIA

eSport and the exploitation of digital labour

CHRISTOPHER MCCUTCHEON AND MICHAEL HITCHENS

Beyond fandom: Outlander Facebook fan groups and the guardianship of an imagined Scotland

STEPHANIE GARRISON

Performing science-fiction fandom through debating controversy: Communicative leisure, collective memory and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, below the line at The Guardian

KARL SPRACKLEN