Tag: fake geek girls

• 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

• Categorizing Fractured Fandom

  

  Defining Fractured Fandom According to the discipline of fan studies, at this point in history, being a fan is considered a positive for any individual. Being a fan helps people discover their identities, and to determine what they like and do not like. Being a fan helps people find friends, establish communities, and develop a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 12, 2015

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Digital Games, Fandom, Internet Studies

  antifans, anxiety, Avril Lavigne, blackface, bronies, canon, cosplay, creativity, cultural appropriation, DC, dialogue, Discourse, diversity, echo chambers, emasculation, empathy, fake geek girls, fanatics, fanboys, Fandom, fanon, fans, filter bubbles, fractured fandom, furries, GamerGate, gender, gender appropriateness, Gwen Stefani, hate-watching, hooligans, identity, ideology, insecurity, insularity, Julianne Hough, Katy Perry, legitimacy, love, Marvel, otaku, perspective-taking, privilege, producers, racism, reactionary, Respect, rivalries, Rule 34, sexism, sexualization, Shipping, Slash, snarking, sports, Star Trek, Star Wars, stereotypes, trolling, Twihards, Virtual Reality, yellowface

• Fractured Fandom

  

  The full version of this article first appeared at the Clearance Bin Review.  Given the importance of the concept, fractured fandom, to my work on Doctor Who and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I am bringing the specific elements from the article here. Now, first and foremost, let it be said that I think these thoughts we […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 23, 2013

  Fandom

  anti-fandom, cosplaying, Doctor Who, fake geek girls, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, religion, Slash, sports, Star Trek, true fans, Twilight

• What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium

  What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium — Medium. So here we have another wonderful breakdown of a breakdown in the progress of bringing women across gendered lines.  This summer — and maybe even this year thus far — has been one in which we really start to address the realities of what has […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 13, 2013

  Digital Games, Fandom, Gender Studies, Internet Studies

  fake geek girls, fractured fandom, gender inequality, gender swapping, male dominance, man caves, misogyny