[ecrea] cfp - Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures

Call for Papers
Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures


In recent years, the internet in general and social media in particular 
has fundamentally changed our media culture. The relationship between 
producers and consumers has shifted, creating new power relationships. 
Media culture has become more and more about participation, while 
technological developments such as ‘Facebook liking’ have further 
blurred the traditional distinction between fans and audiences. Fans 
represent the vanguard of these new developments. Insights from early 
fan studies on active audiences have spread to other notions of the 
audience. These developments call for a critical rethinking of the role 
and significance of fans in contemporary culture.

Herewith we invite proposals for a new handbook of Fan Cultures, part of 
the Ashgate Research Companion Series. We welcome contributions from 
established scholars in the media and communication, sociology and 
psychology, or any related field. Topics of interest for this research 
companion include, but are not limited to:

-histories of fan cultures / fan studies
-fan geographies
-disciplinary challenges
-studying fans: methodological issues
-power and identity among fans
-haters, non-fans and anti-fans
-individual fans vs fan communities
-the producer-consumer continuum
-online fan spaces
-uses and meanings of fan technologies

Ashgate Companions offer a comprehensive and authoritative 
state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The 
Companion's editor brings together a team of respected and experienced 
experts to write new chapters on the key issues in their specialty.

Submission details:
Submissions should describe original contributions and should not have 
been published or submitted elsewhere. Please send an abstract of your 
submission (max. 300 words), accompanied by a brief bio (max 50 words), 
to Koos Zwaan ((koos.zwaan /at/ inholland.nl)). The editors will select a 
number of abstracts for the volume, which will be included in the 
proposal for review by the publisher.  Subject to review and the issue 
of a contract, the authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to 
submit full chapters for publication in the volume.

Deadline abstract submission: December 1, 2011
Notification:  December 14, 2011

Editors:
Dr. Linda Duits
Affiliated researcher
Research Institute for History and Culture
Utrecht University
(info /at/ lindaduits.nl)

Dr. Stijn Reijnders
Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Erasmus University Rotterdam
(reijnders /at/ eshcc.eur.nl)

Dr. Koos Zwaan
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Citizenship
Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Diemen, The Netherlands
(koos.zwaan /at/ inholland.nl)
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