[ecrea] CFA Nordic Perspectives on Fandom in a Transmedia Landscape

EXTENDED DEADLINE 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): 
July 2, 2018

- Invitation to submit full articles: July 10, 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/mediekultur 
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the section ‘Abstracts’.

Any questions regarding the special issue can be addressed to the guest 
editors at (linenp /at/ sdu.dk) and (jerslev /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 
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You can find the author guidelines here: 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/about/submissions…; 
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