POSTPONED due to COVID-19
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FanLIS 2020: Building Bridges
Programme
9th April 2020
Venue: A109/A110, College Building, City, University of London
Organizers: Dr Ludi Price (ludovica.price@city.ac.uk) & Dr Lyn Robinson (lyn@city.ac.uk)
Registration FREE: Via Eventbrite
Twitter: @CityLIS #CityLIS #FanLIS
Please note that the schedule below may be subject to changes.
10:00 Registration (light refreshments available)
11:00 Introduction
Methodology
11:15 Filling the Gap: an Exploration into the Theories and Methods Used in Fan Studies – Eleonora Benecchi & Colin Porlezza
Information Behaviour
11:40 Fandoms: a political alternative to corporate information management – Michael Dolton
12:05 “I Know What I’m About”: A Pilot Study of Fanfiction and the Information-Seeking Behaviors of Teenage Readers – J Nicole Miller
12:30 Twitch Played Pokémon: A Niche Community Still Remembers – Aris Emmanouloudis
12:55 Lunch (Please bring your own lunch. Food available to purchase on campus or nearby.)
Authenticity & Canonicity
13:55 How Adventure Time Fans Understand the ‘True’ Producer: A Close Analysis of Two Encyclopedic Fan Texts – Paul A. Thomas (remote presentation)
14.20. Canon, Canons and Anti-Canonicity: Queer Cultural Memory and the Textuality of Swan Queen ‘#fic recs’ on Tumblr – Alice M. Kelly
14:45 The animated Princess as cultural icon: a royal legacy from the Disney corporation – Jasmine Kershaw
15:10 Break (light refreshments available)
Transcultural
15:30 Japanese Visual Media Graph: Providing researchers with data from enthusiast communities – Senan Kiryakos, Magnus Pfeffer, Martin Roth, Luca Paolo Bruno & Zoltan Kacsuk
15:55 Non-profit publishing in fannish and academic contexts: who wants what, and who controls the infrastructure? – Nele Noppe
16:20 Unraveling discursive construction of Thai fandom: an analysis of Thai fans’ portrayal and rewriting of source texts in fan fiction – Pitchapa Smutradontri
16:45 Final thoughts on relationship between Fan Studies and LIS
17:00 Drinks reception
18:00 Close
