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[ecrea] Call for Submissions (Book chapters for an edited book) *Revisiting the Aca-fan concept with and beyond Jenkins*

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CFP: Call for Submissions (Book chapters for an edited book)

Book title: *Revisiting the Aca-fan Concept (With and Beyond Jenkins)*

Submission deadline: October 1st, 2016.

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2016 First drafts submitted by January 1st, 2017 Anthology will be published in fall of 2017

Editor: Prof. Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb (Centre Norbert Elias) (Eds.)

Publisher: Routledge







*Description*



Jenkins has described himself as an "Aca-fan", a term that first gained cur- rency in the early 1990’s. Jenkins is further credited with helping in the wide- spread popularization of the term, together with Matt Hills' concept of the "fan-academic", that describes an academic who consciously identifies and writes as a fan. Jenkins’s theories was extensively discussed in 2011, in a special issue of Cultural Studies edited by James Hay and Nick Couldry but this volume did not focus on the Aca-fan concept. Furthermore, over the past several years and in spite of the Hills/Jenkins partial responses (Hills has enlighten his approach of the acafan in 2007 in « Media Academics as Media Audiences: Aesthetic Judgements in Media and Cultural Studies ») and the few papers published worldwide (Maigret-Macé, 2005; Booth, 2013; Cristofari-Guitton, 2015, Gimello-Vilatte, 2015), the academic community (including fan studies scholars) had not yet deeply explored the perimeter of the Aca-fan concept as a whole topic of study. More recently, Paul Booth acknowledged that the ‘Aca-fan’ “does not do enough to involve fans in the process of research”, (Booth, 2013) while Bruno Cailler and Cécile Masoni observed an antagonism between both communities (Masoni-Cailler, 2015). Paradoxically, while Jenkins most powerful concepts such as transmedia convergence or participatory audiences were dissected worldwide, the Aca-fan heuristic values remain relatively neglected and under-discussed within the academic field, including in fandom studies.



*Statement of Aims*



Guided by these questions, we are seeking chapters for an edited collection that historicizes, interrogates and problematizes the Aca-fan concept as a stimulating framework, for which to better understand the scholars involvement within contemporary media culture. The aim of this edited volume is to both revisiting and reinterpret, from an epistemological perspective, several research defined key concepts that have formulated "fan-academic" propositions with and beyond Hills or Jenkins. Editors are especially interested in testimonies from academics engaged in emerging academic fields, where the Aca-fan concept is familiarized such as studies in popular music, videogames, media, film, audience theory and media epistemology, just to name a few.


We invite prospective participants to submit a 500 words abstract that draws upon empirical and/or critical approaches through the exploration of Aca-fan contemporary and/or historical issues. Chapters may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:



*Analyzing early profane or academic works, prior to Hills and Jenkins, that are devoted to academic fandom such as “An Ethnography of Star Trek Fandom” (Di Costanzo, 1977) or “Thinking About Slash/Thinking About Women” (Bjorklund, 1988), among others.



*Case studies stemming from scholars implementing the Aca-fan con- cept in their classes and further questioning the impact of such, from an educational or epistemological perspective.



*The Aca-fan concept: concerning a practice-based Audience theory and Reception Studies



*Discussing Social Science Methodology through the Aca-fan: Is the scholar a fan just “like the others”?



*What is the concept meaning to non Aca-fan scholars?



*Legally introduce scholar’s tastes and quality judgment through aca- demic writings: A (new) form of criticism?



*Participant Observation Data Collection method



* Analysis of academic debates regarding Aca-Fandom rhetoric





Please submit a 500 word abstract, a list of 10 references and a brief biog- raphy to Centre Norbert Elias - Prof. Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb (cne-ecc[alt]univ-avignon.fr) by *October 1st, 2016. *Successful submissions will be notified on October 15th. Upon acceptance, full articles (between 6000 and 8000 words, including references) will be due at the latest on the 1st of December, 2016.

*Calendar*





1) Call for Proposals sent out by July 1st, 2016; 2)Proposals received by October 1st, 2016;

3) Review of proposals, and confirmation of first-level contributions made by October 15, 2016, and contributors informed of decisions at this stage;

4)           First drafts submitted by January 1st, 2017;

5) Evaluation and peer-review of first drafts, and feedback sent to contributors by February 1st, 2016;

6)           Second and final drafts submitted by March, 15, 2017;

7) Review of second drafts, and follow-up with contributors, where applicable, by April 30, 2017;

8) Completion of manuscript (introduction, index, copyediting, formatting, etc.) by June 1st, 2017, and then submitted to the Publisher.
9)       Excepted publication : Fall 2017.







*About the editor*



The Centre Norbert Elias Culture and Communication Research Team headed by Prof. Gimello-Mesplomb focuses in communicational approach of cultural subjects with an emphasis in cultural and heritage institutions, cul- tural practices and reception analysis (audience studies), studies on groups involved in cultural activities structuring their leisure practices. The team concerns 17 full members (tenured professors and assistant/associate pro- fessors), 22 associates (professionals, postdoctoral students, visiting re- searchers and scholars) and hosts over than 40 PhD students in communica- tion sciences. The lab publishes the international peer-review ISI indexed journal Culture & Musées.



mail : cne-ecc[alt]univ-avignon.fr

Website : http://centre-norbert-elias.ehess.fr/

* Suggested bibliography*



BJORKLUND Edi. “Thinking About Slash/Thinking About Women”, Nome, Vol. 11, 1988, 30-39.

BOOTH Paul. Digital Fandom: New Media Studies. Bern, Peter Lang, 2010. BOOTH, Paul. « Augmenting Fan/Academic Dialogue: New Directions in Fan Research ». Journal of Fandom Studies, 2013, vol. 1, n° 2, p. 119-138.

BUSSE, Kristina, HELLEKSON, Karen. « Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy ». In LARSENKatherine and ZUBERNIS Lynn (dirs), Fan Culture: Theory/Practice, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2012, p. 38-56.

MASONI Céline, CAILLER Bruno. « Fans versus universitaires, l’hypothèse dialogique de la transmédialité au sein d’un dispositif socio-narratif ». Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, 2015, vol. 15.

CRISTOFARI Cécile, GUITTON Matthieu J. « L’aca-fan : aspects méthodologiques, éthiques et pratiques », Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, 2015, vol. 7, URL : http://rfsic.revues.org/1651.

DICOSTANZO James L. “ Final Frontier: An Ethnography of STAR TREK Fandom”, Interphase, Vol. 4, 1977.

FRANÇOIS Sébastien. « Fanf(r)ictions ». Réseaux, 2009, volume 153, n° 1.
GIMELLO-MESPLOMB Frédéric, VILATTE Jean-Christophe. « Les recherches sur les publics en sciences de l’information et de la communication », Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, 2015, vol. 7, URL : http://rfsic.revues.org/1651.

GIMELLO-MESPLOMB Frédéric. “Some Epistemological Considerations About the Theories of Film and Cultural Consumption in the Internet Age: Revisiting Superstardom Models, Long Tail Phenomenon and Quality Appraisal”. Katowice (Poland) : Scientific Publications of the University of Economics in Katowice, 2012, p. 105-115.

HAY James, Couldry Nick. « Rethinking convergence/culture: an introduction ». Cultural Studies 25. 4-5 (2011): 473-486.

HENNION A. « Une sociologie des attachements. D’une sociologie de la culture à une pragmatique de l’amateur », Sociétés, 85 (3), 2004, pp. 9-24.

HILLS Matt. Fan Cultures. Londres : Routledge, 2002.

HILLS Matt. « Media Academics as Media Audiences: Aesthetic Judgements in Media and Cultural Studies ». In Gray Jonathan, Sandvoss Cornell, et Harrington C. Lee (Eds.), Fandom : Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York : New York University Press, 2007, p. 33-47.

HILLS Matt, JENKINS Henry. « Intensities Interviews Henry Jenkins @Consoleing Passions, University of Bristol, July 7th, 2001 ». Intensities, 2002, volume 2, n° 1.

JENKINS Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. Londres : Taylor & Francis, 1992.

JENKINS Henry. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York : New York University Press, 2006.

JENKINS Henry. “Rethinking ‘rethinking convergence/culture”. Cultural Studies, 2014, vol. 28, no 2, p. 267-297.

LARSEN Katherine, ZUBERNIS Lynn. « Introduction ». In Larsen Katherine and Zubernis Lynn (Eds.), Fan Culture : Theory/Practice, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2012, p. 1-13.

SCHNEIDER Marco. “Ethics and epistemology: warning against the" axiological neutrality" on contemporary communication research”. Matrizes, 2013, vol. 7, no 2, p. 221-234.

TUSHNET Rebecca. « ‘I’m a Lawyer, not an Ethnographer, Jim’: Textual Poachers and Fair Use ». Journal of Fandom Studies, 2013, vol. 2, n° 1, p. 21-30.

ZUBERNIS Lynn, LARSEN Katherine. Fandom at the Crossroads : Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2012.
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