2020/06/13 by Dawn Walls-Thumma · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Digital Games and Media #Media, Gender, and Advertising #Scholarship #Fandom #Perception #Sociology #Aesthetics #Visual arts #Media studies #Art #Political science #Epistemology #Law #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.3983/twc.2020.1871
openalex publication_date 2020/06/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
With its autoethnographic tradition, fan studies research sometimes draws from similar intellectual and emotional impulses as the creation of fan works themselves, namely the perception of a lack and the need to repair that gap. Likewise, methodologies can intentionally or inadvertently respond to gaps in the scholarship.