FanLIS 2021: Building Bridges
Programme
20th May 2021
Venue: Online
Organizers: Dr Ludi Price (ludovica.price@city.ac.uk) & Dr Lyn Robinson (lyn@city.ac.uk)
Registration: FREE
Twitter: @CityLIS #CityLIS #FanLIS
Please note that the schedule below may be subject to changes.
13.00 Welcome Address – Dr Ludi Price
Panel 1
13.15 Filling the Gap: an Exploration into the Theories and Methods Used in Fan Studies – Eleonora Benecchi & Colin Porlezza
13:35 Japanese Visual Media Graph: Providing researchers with data from enthusiast communities – Senan Kiryakos, Magnus Pfeffer, Martin Roth, Luca Paolo Bruno & Zoltan Kacsuk
13:55 Twitch Played Pokémon: A Niche Community Still Remembers – Aris Emmanouloudis
14:15 The animated Princess as cultural icon: a royal legacy from the Disney corporation – Jasmine Kershaw
14:35 Panel Q&A Moderated by Dr Ludi Price
15.00 Break
Panel 2
15.20 Canon, Canons and Anti-Canonicity: Queer Cultural Memory and the Textuality of Swan Queen ‘#fic recs’ on Tumblr – Alice M. Kelly
15:40 “I Know What I’m About”: A Pilot Study of Fanfiction and the Information-Seeking Behaviors of Teenage Readers – J Nicole Miller
16.00 How Adventure Time Fans Understand the ‘True’ Producer: A Close Analysis of Two Encyclopedic Fan Texts – Paul A. Thomas
16:20 Panel Q&A Moderated by Dr Lyn Robinson
16:45 Break
17.00 Keynote (title TBA) – Abigail De Kosnik
18.00 Thoughts on relationship between Fan Studies and LIS – Dr Ludi Price
18:15 Close
