[ecrea] Call for chapters: Online, offline and transcultural spaces in Australian Fandom

*CALL FOR CHAPTERS*


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*Online, offline and transcultural spaces in Australian Fandom*


Australian fans have access to a wide array of popular culture content 
from around the world, developing relationships with these products that 
are as rich as fans from other parts of the globe. Until recently access 
to media products is limited by temporal and spatial distance from 
countries of origin. Yet, at the same time practices from diaspora 
communities to preserve cultural identity introduces a multitude of 
global media content to a wider Australian audience. Australian fans 
thus engage with a mixture of ‘conventional’ and ‘niche’ media products 
that places them both within the margins and in the mainstream.  While 
there may be parallels between Australia and other nations with 
multicultural communities, the geographical location, history and 
cultural mix of Australian society give rise to unique contexts shaping 
the consumption and practices of Australian fans.

We thus ask the question: What makes the Australian fan experience 
unique? What influence does geo-political location have on the 
consumption and appropriation of popular culture in the Australian 
context? What impact does Australian multicultural society have on 
exposure and access to popular culture? What drives Australian fan 
interaction with global popular culture, and how does this interaction 
intersect with narratives of ‘Australian-ness’ in local and globalised 
contexts?

This book seeks to explore the specific and unique experience of being 
fans living and Australia.

We seek authors to contribute critical chapters for an edited volume to 
be submitted to University of Iowa Press. Topics include but are not 
limited to:

   * Online fandom
   * Offline fandom (including convention attendance, fan-celebrity
     interaction etc)
   * Fan perceptions of celebrity brands/identities/public persona
   * Fan fiction
   * Cosplay culture
   * Anime culture
   * Manga culture
   * Subcultures of fandom
   * Transcultural fan practices (e.g. fan Subbers)
   * World cinema fandom
   * Cult cinema fandom
   * Comic book fandom
   * Distribution practices including Fast tracked television, Streaming
     services and Netflix
   * Fandom and national identity

Please email *300* word abstracts and your *CV* to both Celia Lam and 
Jackie Raphael by *August 31 2016*. Proposals should be for original 
chapters that have not been previously published (including conference 
proceedings), and are not under consideration from other journals or 
edited collections.

Dr. Celia Lam is Lecturer in Media and Communications, School of Arts 
and Sciences, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney 
((celia.lam /at/ nd.edu.au) <mailto:(celia.lam /at/ nd.edu.au)>)

Dr. Jackie Raphael is Lecturer in Design, School of Design and Art, 
Curtin University ((J.Raphael /at/ curtin.edu.au) <mailto:(J.Raphael /at/ curtin.edu.au)>)
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