The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of fan studies and to point to new research directions.
Melissa A. Click's work on fans, audiences, and popular culture has been published in Television & New Media, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Popular Music & Society, Transformative Works & Cultures, and in the anthologies Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World and in Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century. She is editor of a forthcoming anthology on anti-fandom and co-editor of Bitten by Twilight.
Suzanne Scott is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared in Transformative Works and Cultures, Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and New Media & Society, as well as numerous anthologies, including Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (2nd Edition), How to Watch Television, and The Participatory Cultures Handbook. Her current book project examines the gendered tensions underpinning the media industry's embrace of fans within convergence culture.
Section One: Methods and Ethics
Section Introduction
Kristina Busse
Matt Hills
Kathy Fuller-Seeley
Lucy Bennett
Libby Hemphill, Carly A. Kocurek, and Xi Rao
Katherine E. Morrissey
Will Brooker, Mark Duffett, and Karen Hellekson
Section Two: Technologies and Practices
Section Introduction
Mel Stanfill
Louisa Stein
Rebecca Williams
Derek Kompare
Bob Rehak
Rhiannon Bury
Whitney Phillips
Nancy Baym, Daniel Cavicchi, and Norma Coates
Section Three: Identities
Section Introduction
Julie Levin Russo
Frederik Dhaenens
Sam Ford
Elizabeth Affuso
Matthew A. Cicci
Elizabeth Ellcessor
Lincoln Geraghty
Vivi Theodoropoulou
Francesca Coppa, Alexis Lothian, and Tisha Turk
Section Four: Race and Transcultural Fandom
Section Introduction
Benjamin Woo
Kristen J. Warner
Abigail De Kosnik
Jillian M. Báez
Lori Morimoto
Hilde Van den Bulck
Bertha Chin, Aswin Punathambekar, and Sangita Shresthova
Section Five: Industry
Section Introduction
Alisa Perren and Laura Felschow
Anne Gilbert
Avi Santo
Melanie Kohnen
Bethan Jones
Jeremy Wade Morris
Ivan Askwith, Britta Lundin, and Aja Romano
Section Six: Futures of Fan Studies
Section Introduction
Henry Jenkins
Derek Johnson
41. Aging, Fans, and Fandom
Lee Harrington and Denise Bielby
42. Class "Then" and Class 'Now' in Hotel Cerise
John Tulloch
43. Board Gamers as Fans
Paul Booth
44. Futures of Fan Studies: A Conversation
Melissa A. Click, Jonathan Gray, Jason Mittell, and Suzanne Scott