[ecrea] Call for Abstracts: Nordic Perspectives on Fandom in a Transmedia Landscape

*Call for Abstracts:*

*Nordic Perspectives on Fandom in a Transmedia Landscape*

*Guest editors: *

Line Nybro Petersen, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark

Anne Jerslev, Professor, University of Copenhagen

*Issue Editor:*

Christian Hviid Mortensen, Curator, The Media Museum

*Deadlines *

- Submission of abstracts (300 words max, with a 100 words author-bio): 
May 15, 2018

- Invitation to submit full articles: June 1, 2018

- Submission of full articles: December 1, 2018

- Expected publication: Summer 2019

All abstracts should be submitted via the journal system at 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekulturunder the section ‘Abstracts’.

Any questions regarding the special issue can be addressed to the guest 
editors (atlinenp /at/ sdu.dk) <mailto:(linenp /at/ sdu.dk)>and (jerslev /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(annejerslev /at/ hum.ku.dk)>.

You are invited to contribute to this special issue of /MedieKultur. 
Journal of media and communication research/. The issue draws attention 
to the increase in international fans of Nordic media texts or 
celebrities and Nordic based fandoms. In recent years, the Norwegian hit 
teenage streaming drama, /SKAM/ (2015-17), captured audiences across the 
Nordic countries, but the show also gained a large international 
following. Nordic television series such as /Forbrydelsen/ (The Killing, 
2011-2014), /Borgen/ (2010-2013) and /Broen/ (The Bridge, 2011-2018) 
have also gathered large enthusiastic followings. Simultaneously, we are 
seeing Scandinavian actors and film directors, for example, getting 
international success. Danish Susanne Bier directed /The Night Manager/ 
(2016-2018), Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen stared in /Hannibal/ 
(2013-2015) and played the villain in /Doctor Strange/ (2016) and 
/Casino Royale /(2006) and Nicolai Coster-Waldau stars as Ser Jaime 
Lannister in /Game of Thrones/. These popular texts and celebrities have 
generated fan cultures both in a Nordic context and internationally. For 
example, international fans have gone back through Mikkelsen’s catalogue 
of Danish films and watched him in films such as /Pusher/ (1996). Fan 
studies are still underdeveloped in Nordic media studies and this 
special issue aims to strengthen research in this field.

The issue place focus on fandom in a Nordic perspective with an interest 
in both transnational perspective and Nordic fandoms, including language 
perspectives, the role of transmedia storytelling for small-language 
media text’s ability to gain international popularity, fans engagement 
with Nordic culture (from knitted sweaters to russebus), fan tourism 
(i.e. travelling to /Broen/ locations), Nordic media texts as cult 
texts, and international Nordic celebrities.  Moreover, this special 
issue also aims at advancing scholarly discussions about fandom and fan 
culture, by taking into considerations concepts such as the 
mainstreaming of fandom and ordinary fandom.

/Topics may include, but are not limited to:/

- Empirical studies of Nordic fan phenomena /(/Film and television, 
Celebrities, Sports, Games, Music,//etc.)

- Empirical studies of transnational fandoms of Scandinavian fan objects 
(television shows, actors, sports teams, etc.)

- Empirical studies of fandom of international media phenomena in select 
Nordic countries

- Fan activism and fan organisation in Scandinavia

- Scandinavian stars and fandom – in a national and international 
(comparative) perspective

- Language perspectives on Nordic fan communities or fans of Nordic texts

- Nordic TV series as cult texts

- Mainstreaming of fandom and Nordic TV series binging

- Fans of adaptations of Nordic texts (/The Girl with The Dragon 
Tattoo/, /The Killing/, etc.)

- Fans of Nordic languages, objects and culture in a broader sense

- Comparative studies of Nordic fan phenomenon and other geographically 
based fandoms.

- Interdisciplinary studies of Nordic fan culture phenomena.

/MedieKultur. Journal of media and communication research /is a 
peer-reviewed and open access journal. /MedieKultur/ has been published 
since 1985. More information at https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur

You can find the author guidelines here: 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

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