FanLIS 2023: Halliday Journals and holodecks: audiences and information in sci-fi fandoms
Programme
Thursday 18th May 2023
1:00pm-6:15pm (BST)
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Organizers: Dr Ludi Price (ludovica.price@city.ac.uk) & Dr Lyn Robinson (lyn@city.ac.uk)
Registration: Eventbrite
Twitter: @TheRealFanLIS @CityLIS #CityLIS #FanLIS
Please note that the schedule below may be subject to changes.
13.00 Welcome Address – Ludi Price
Panel 1
13.15 Infinite Archives, Infinite Possibilities: Learning Research and Databases with Archive of our Own – Alayna Vander Veer and Austin Waters
13:35 The citational practices of sci-fi fan podcasts – Amber Sewell
13:55 This sounds like an episode of The X-Files: Examining how Twitter users interpreted the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of sci-fi television – Nicole Neece
14:15 i’m mixing comic book canon and mcu canon to suit my own needs: Information Sharing as Community Building in a Fandom in Flux – Alison Harding
14:35 Panel Q&A Moderated by Ludi Price
15.00 Break
Panel 2
15.20 Repositories of Knowledge in Ernest Cline’s and Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One – Tom Ue and James Munday
15:40 Data lost, forbidden or controlled?: The archivists of Horizon Forbidden West – Ashley Lanni
16.00 The Library Wants to Kill You: Places of Information as Battleground and Sanctum in Halo – Mackenzie Streissguth
16:20 Panel Q&A Moderated by Lyn Robinson
16:45 Break
17.00 Keynote – Fandom, Fanzines, and Archiving Fannish History – Karen Hellekson
18.00 Closing thoughts – Ludi Price
18:15 Close
