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Just for the hell of it- taking apart a book on fan culture and fan fiction 0/?
I'm not sure if I'll ever get through this, but here's the back story.
A while back, in my line of work as a clerk in a book store (university level) I had a book between my hands that was ordered by one of the educational places of Odense.
I'm not judging them here - I'm judging the book itself. At the first look it looked interesting enough. It was a smallish book on fan culture and fanfiction. Of course, when I started reading it with a friend who majors in media science, we were both struck by the fact that 1. the book should have had the subtitle of 'with focus ontwatlight Twilight (and a side order of Harry Potter and knitting (don't ask)). And 2. it was sort of rude to the rest of us (to me at least).
I think upon skimming it, there were several things that struck me as wrong as well as plain insulting. Now, it may be that it's aimed at contemporary YOUNG fandom/cultures but we got to talking that maybe, just maybe, it was worth picking it apart. So, if ya'll are interested in it, I'm willing to take it chunk by chunk - and let you have your say. I'm not going to put my own opinion in the closet, but you're welcome to disagree. My opinion WILL be coloured by the fact that I am not and never WILL I be in the Twilight fandom, but there are still essential parts of the book that just hit me as WRONG. Will I tell the publisher? Sure, if our conversations here become interesting enough, I might just do so. It's a publisher that specializes in educational books, so to me, that means, it's perfectly legit to rip one of their books apart -if the book is off, they need to know.
The other half of my personality just likes poking fun at 'normal people'/'outsiders' writing books on topics where I, even after a decade and a bit, still feel like a bit of a noob.
So, would you guys be interested in conversation? Humour, fun, acadmically founded facts - it's all welcome.
A while back, in my line of work as a clerk in a book store (university level) I had a book between my hands that was ordered by one of the educational places of Odense.
I'm not judging them here - I'm judging the book itself. At the first look it looked interesting enough. It was a smallish book on fan culture and fanfiction. Of course, when I started reading it with a friend who majors in media science, we were both struck by the fact that 1. the book should have had the subtitle of 'with focus on
I think upon skimming it, there were several things that struck me as wrong as well as plain insulting. Now, it may be that it's aimed at contemporary YOUNG fandom/cultures but we got to talking that maybe, just maybe, it was worth picking it apart. So, if ya'll are interested in it, I'm willing to take it chunk by chunk - and let you have your say. I'm not going to put my own opinion in the closet, but you're welcome to disagree. My opinion WILL be coloured by the fact that I am not and never WILL I be in the Twilight fandom, but there are still essential parts of the book that just hit me as WRONG. Will I tell the publisher? Sure, if our conversations here become interesting enough, I might just do so. It's a publisher that specializes in educational books, so to me, that means, it's perfectly legit to rip one of their books apart -if the book is off, they need to know.
The other half of my personality just likes poking fun at 'normal people'/'outsiders' writing books on topics where I, even after a decade and a bit, still feel like a bit of a noob.
So, would you guys be interested in conversation? Humour, fun, acadmically founded facts - it's all welcome.
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Though I'd say it sounds like it could be interesting, reading you're thought-chunks along the way. Picking books apart is fun! :-)
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It's one of systime's books - so not an ordinary book store book - it's ISBN 97887908363640 "Fankultur og Fanfiktion" by Anne Petersen. I'd love to hear your take on it.
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And is it just me or has Twilight caught the academic interest in Denmark? (I ask solely based on this book and that other academic a while ago who compared Twilight fanculture to religion).
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Well, if by religion they refer to the obsession of the fans, I can see what they mean (not that other fandoms haven't been like that). And we're not getting around the fact that people seem to enjoy Twilight (and let's not get into 50 shades). I remember about what, 5 years ago? Danish morning TV had a small clip on fanfiction - had me in stitches because they made it sound like it was something teenage boys wrote and it was something fairly new.
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*bows* I shall do what I can to translate it then.
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My instinctive reaction is to list alternatives to what sounds like a bad book, but I guess you're not really the one who needs to know :oP
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LOL - don't worry - I have the whole of fannish culture to make it better after reading this.
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If you're posting here, I'm up for it.
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Hey, you're coming over in two weeks :D ?!
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