Tag: anti-fans

• Anti-Fans and Political Public Spheres

  

  Let me start off by saying we are not discussing “guilty pleasures” here. A guilty pleasure is when someone engages with something they know to be “bad” but they get pleasure out of doing it. So a person may feel ashamed or embarrassed about the engaging, and may do it in secret so that others […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 19, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  anti-fandom, anti-fans, Batman v Superman, cultural forum, democracy, for the lulz, guilty pleasures, hate-watching, just kidding, Men in Trees, Public discourse, public sphere, snarking

• The Dark Side of Fandom

  

  Last fall the call went out from the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (aka C2E2) for proposed panels for the 2016 convention. I had just been part of a very successful discussion at an academic conference that considered the problems, tensions, fractures that fans have been facing, online and offline, for years. But that was […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 11, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  academics, anti-fandom, anti-fans, appropriateness, C2E2, Chicago, Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, class, dark side, dialogue, fake fan girls, fake geek girls, fan-scholars, Fandom, fratured fandom, gender, harassment, hierarchy, identity, infighting, policing, power, queer, race, schema, shaming