Given our collaboration with the Anime Military Association and their annual challenge coins for A-Kon, we thought this Unofficial, Anecdotal History of Challenge Coins by Sandra Tayler would be of interest to our readers. Thank you to Jeffrey MacHott for bringing this to our...
Popular Culture Resources for Educators, Librarians, Parents, and Fans 3d Edition
This is the third installment of our research bibliography, Popular Culture Resources for Educators, Librarians, Parents, and Fans. It is free for everyone to use and we welcome corrections and suggestions for future editions. Pop Culture Resources for Educators and Librarians 3d Edition Popular Culture Resources for Educators, Librarians,...
The Phoenix Papers, Vol. 1, No. 2
Below are the entries of the second edition of The Phoenix Papers, Vol. 1, No. 2. We are proud to offer our publication to the world as a free, online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of fandom and neomedia studies. We invite responses in Letter to the Editor format, articles and reviews, and also participation as submission readers. For information on...
Popular Culture Resources, 2nd ed.
This bibliography of Popular Culture Resources for Educators, Librarians, Parents, and Fans, 2nd ed. is our second major effort toward one of our major goals: assisting fandom and media studies. Our two interns, Elizabeth Vondran and Jazmine Martin, have done an excellent job. The document is the second edition. It has been and will continue to be, of...
The Phoenix Papers, Vol. 1, No. 1
Below are the entries of the first edition of The Phoenix Papers, Vol. 1, No. 1. We are proud to put this out to the world as a free, online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of fandom and neomedia studies. We invite responses in Letter to the Editor format, articles and reviews, and also participation as submission readers. For information on this and...
FANS Association Mission and Vision
Mission Statement: Our mission is to encourage the study of fans through their interactions with neomedia. We understand neomedia to refer to both new media, as well as traditional media that is being used or interpreted in new ways. The study of fandom has implications for studies ranging from Economics to Political Science, and from History to Anthropology,...