Une fois de plus, grâce à un mot-clic (#FSN2016), nous avons été en mesure de suivre ce colloque sur les fan studies, qui a eu lieu les 25 et 26 juin à l’université d’East Anglia, en Angleterre. Ce qui a attiré notre attention cette année : la conférence donnée par Henry Jenkins, celle sur l’enseignement des fan studies et celle sur les auteurs de fanfiction dans la littérature.
Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California, USA): How Fandom helps us to negociate the politics of diversity and forsters the civic imagination
Dans cette conférence qui inaugure cette édition, Jenkins rappelle la sous-représentation des femmes et des minorités ethniques dans les médias dits « mainstream ». Entre temps, le fandom est devenu le site de conflits culturels entre les fans et de conflits entre les fans et les producteurs. En effet, alors qu’on voit une ouverture à la diversité raciale (Source), certains studios utilisent la mauvaise réceptivité des fans mâles et blancs pour justifier une approche lente concernant la diversité des personnages (Source). En réponse à la controverse « Fandom is broken », Jenkins répond : « Fandom is not broken, it’s just not only for white dudes anymore » (Source). Au lieu de voir le fandom comme un lieu de célébration ou de résistance, il invite les chercheurs à s’inspirer des travaux de Stuart Hall et à explorer le fandom en tant que lieu de négociation. Il rappelle que les fans ont du pouvoir et qu’ils doivent l’utiliser efficacement pour apporter du changement, comme le démontrent bien les manifestations après les morts de personnages dans Sleepy Hollow et The 100 (Source).
Henry Jenkins identifying gender inequalities in Hollywood film production. #FSN2016 pic.twitter.com/Mt5NpzaUr1
— Ross Garner (@DrRPG_TV) 25 juin 2016
Great start to #FSN2016! @henryjenkins re: fans’ negotiations with contradictions of power, race, representation pic.twitter.com/DijQIJw8yV
— Patricia Kennon (@Houseofstairs) 25 juin 2016
Matthias Stephan (Aarhus University, Danemark): The Challenges of Teaching Fan Studies
À partir de son expérience des deux dernières années en pédagogie, Stephan explore les défis à présenter un cours sur les fans studies en Danemark. En effet, sa classe est composée d’étudiants ayant différents parcours académiques ainsi que d’étudiants étrangers, son cours étant enseigné en langue anglaise. De plus, Stephen reconnaît la difficulté de tout couvrir sur les fans studies en un semestre (Source), mais parvient néanmoins à former ses étudiants à effectuer des études de cas (Source) et à organiser des excursions au Comic Con de Londres (Source). Par cette conférence, il souhaite débuter une conversation sur les meilleures méthodes d’enseignement sur les fan studies afin de mieux les intégrer dans d’autres cours et programmes.
Sébastien François (Université Paris Descartes, France): Fanficcers as Literary Characters? Fandoms and Fannishness in Two Novels from the Early 2010s
Les représentations des fans et de leurs fandoms dans les œuvres de fiction ne datent pas d’hier. Par contre, au début des années 2010, nous avons pu remarquer la présence d’auteurs de fanfictions (nommés ici fanficcers) en tant que personnages dans les romans. Pour sa présentation, François a analysé deux œuvres littéraires mettant en scène des fanficcers : Fangirl (2013), de Rainbow Rowell, et Féerie générale (2012), d’Emmanuelle Pireyre. Il a ainsi pu constater certaines différentes : par exemple, dans Féérie générale, l’activité de fan se limite au forum et aux fanfictions alors que, dans Fangirl, les activités de fans sont nombreuses (marchandises, fan art, fanfictions, etc.). Il est également intéressant de noter que, dans Féérie générale, on utilise une citation d’Henry Jenkins pour légitimer la fanfiction (Source).
Fanficcers as literary characters by @sebastien_fr Is Nietszche halal is a fanfic i’d love to read :p #FSN2016 pic.twitter.com/UyuleKLNE0
— leandroblima (@leandroblima) 26 juin 2016
Comme nous l’avons fait lors des éditions précédentes, nous vous présentons, en conclusion, la liste des participants selon la programmation de cette année. Au plaisir de lire vos tweets l’an prochain!
Panel A: Co-Creation
Kirsty Sedgman (Audience&Co, UK): No-Object Fandom: Bringing Theatrical Meta-Texts to Life
Charlotte Taylor-Ashfield (Bath Spa University, England): Resurrecting the Author: Transmedia Storytelling, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Captain Marvel fandom
Jessica Seymour (Southern Cross University, Australia): Prosumer fanart practices in the Harry Potter and Welcome to Night Vale fandoms
Jonathan Wroot (University of Worcester, England): Letting the Fans Be Involved: Third Window’s Use of Social Media and Crowdfunding for Disc Releases
Panel B: Offline Spaces 1
Celia Lam (University of Notre Dame, Australia): Convergence and Conventions: Australians fans online and offline
Orion Mavridou (Abertay University, Scotland): Costume, Play & The Ludic Dimensions of Fandom
Elise Vist (University of Waterloo, Canada): The Supernatural Family: Immersion and Play at Creation Entertainment Conventions
Rhona Trauvitch (Florida International University, USA): Fan-tastic Non-fictional Locales: WhereEctostory Interactions Commemorate Fictional Events
Panel C: Participatory Memory in the Fandoms of Sherlock Holmes and Lord of the Rings
Liza Potts (Michigan State University, USA): The Sign of Three: Fan Memory of Sherlock Fans in London
Dawn Opel (Arizona State University, USA): “Distinctly Elvish”: Lord of the Rings Fan Tourism in New Zealand’s Kaitoke Regional Park
Elizabeth Oderkirk (Michigan State University, USA): A Sherlockian Method: Using a landscape analysis to understand how fan groups represent themselves and their fandoms
Panel D: Using the Archive
Mike Goode (Syracuse University, USA): ‘All this must be Invention, and Invention is What Delights Me in Other Books’: Archiving the Virtual in Jane Austen and Austen Fanfic
Naomi Jacobs (Lancaster University, England): Moving pictures: Designing a Digital Public Space with fans
Ann McClellan (Plymouth State University, USA): Tit-Bits, New Journalism, and Early Sherlock Holmes Fandom
Ludi Price & Lyn Robinson (City University, London, England): Fanfiction in the library
Panel E: Revisiting Fandom and Ontological Security: Types of Nostalgia, Cult Revivals and Theme Park Memorialisation
Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University, Wales): The Truth Is/Was Out There: Ageing and Reimagined Cult TV
Ross P. Garner (Cardiff University, Wales): ‘20 Years Later, and That Intro is Still the Most Badass Thing in Existence’: YouTube Comments, Nostalgia and Ontological Security
Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales): R.I.P River Country: Abandoned theme park rides, ontological security and online memorialisation
Panel F: Defining Fans
Agata Łuksza (University of Warsaw, Poland): Recovering fandom history: nineteenth-century ‘actormania’ in the light of fan studies
Megen de Bruin-Molé (Cardiff University, Wales): Pride and Prejudice and Fandom: How Cut-and-Paste Culture Negotiates the Language of Originality
Kali DeDominicis (University of Edinburgh, Scotland): Fandom, Meta, and Public/Private Online Space: A Methodological and Ethical Approach
Panel G: Race and Culture
Hanna Klien (University of Vienna, Austria): Mas, Remix and ‘mashin’ up d place’: an interdisciplinary approach to transcultural fandom of Bollywood films in the Caribbean
Iain Robert Smith (University of Roehampton, England): Cult Cosmopolitanism: The Reception of Bollywood B-Movies in the West
Utku Ali Yıldırım (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey): Fans by Proxy: Cross-Cultural Media Fan Formations in Turkey
Ming Zhang (Bournemouth University, England): Liberty and Resistance: Gender, Cultural identity and Network censorship in Chinese Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction
Panel H: Fan Studies as Pedagogy
Matthias Stephan (Aarhus University, Denmark): The Challenges of Teaching Fan Studies
Gregory Erickson (New York University, USA): New Paradigms of Academic Writing: Fan/Critic/Student/Academic
Hiroko Inose, Anneli Fjordevik & Mattias Aronsson (Dalarna University, Sweden): Fan Activities applied to Online University Education
Panel I: Consumerism
Konstanty Strzyczkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland): We’re Not in This Alone: Fans and Brand Tribalism
Emma Pett (University of East Anglia, England): “We’ve seen it in the movies, let’s see if it’s true”: Cliff Richard fandom and the rise of consumer culture in the 1960s
Olivia Warschaw (New York University, USA): From Punk to Fandom: Hot Topic’s Commandeering of Subcultural Style
Simon Brown (Kingston University, England): The Unending Fury: King, Carpenter and Christine Car Fandom
Panel J: Theorising Fanfic
Jessica Hindes (Royal Holloway University, London, England): “You cry out his name”: reader insert/’imagines’ and fanfic as self-gratification
Sébastien François (Paris Descartes University, France): Fanficcers as Literary Characters? Fandoms and Fannishness in Two Novels from the Early 2010s
Eva Wijman (Umeå University, Sweden): The Afterlife of Mary Sue in Lord of the Rings fanfiction
Monika Drzewiecka (University of Gdańsk, Poland): Dominance, Submission and Gendered Power Politics. Investigating the Dark Side of Slash Fanfiction
Panel K: Offline Spaces 2
Amber Hutchins (Kennesaw State University, USA): “I Met the Mohawk Guy at a Star Party”: #NASASocial Events and Fan Engagement
Kania Arini Sukotjo (National University of Singapore): Yaoi Content in Surabaya’s Anime Convention
Abby Waysdorf & Stijn Rejinders (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Place and The Prisoner
Rafal Zaborowski (London School of Economics, England): Dancing with glowsticks: Participation and proximity in music fan practices in Japan
Panel L: Identity
Ashley Hinck (Xavier University, Ohio, USA): LEGO fandom: Practices, Values, and Gendered Boundaries
Andrew Crome (University of Manchester, England): Ponies at Prayer and Cosplay in the Pulpit: Fandom and Lived Religion
Joanna Kucharska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland): The Wild Hunt: Nationality, Fannish Identity and the Discourses of Race and Representation in The Witcher 3 within Polish Fandom
Federica Lanzi (University of Perugia, Italy): The rights of criticism: The anti-fans within the fans
Panel M: Fanfiction, Gender and Sexuality
Sophie Hansal (University of Vienna, Austria): A Safe Haven For Queers?: The Meaning Of Fem-/Slash Fan Fiction for Lgbtq+ Fans
Jonathan Rose (Passau University, Germany): Omegaverse, or: what a kink trope tells us about sex, gender and sexuality
Angie Fazekas (University of Toronto, Canada): Alpha, Beta, Omega: Queer Futurity and Racial Narratives in Erotic Fanfiction
Milena Popova (University of the West of England): When the RP gets in the way of the F: The limits of compartmentalisation in Real Person(a) Fiction
Panel N: Community Spaces
Jessica Austin (Anglia Ruskin University, England): Fur and Loathing: Identity, Stigma and Online Furry Fandom
Agata Włodarczyk (Gdansk University, Poland): Crocheting Superheroes – The Community and The Joy of Sharing
Clarice Greco, Fernanda Castilho & Ligia Prezia Lemos (University of São Paulo, Brazil): Fandom Memory Stick: Fan meetings to complete the ‘50 years of telenovelas’ sticker album
Simone Driessen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): ‘You Still Turn Me On’ – Fans’ mediated music memories of The Big Reunion
Panel O: “The Force Re-awakens”: Disney’s Star Wars’ Audiences
William Proctor (Bournemouth University, England): ‘This Time We’ll Get it Right’: Evaluating ‘The Force Re-Awakens’ Methodology
Richard McCulloch (University of Huddersfield, England): Shiny Happy Prequels?: Young Audiences, ‘Becoming a Fan’ Narratives, and Anticipation for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth, England): Star Wars: The Force Awakens Prediction Videos as Paratextual Fan Narratives
Panel P: Pls come to Brazil: Fan Studies and transcultural perspectives on Brazilian digital fandoms and haters
Giovana Santana Carlos (Universidade do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil): Transcultural fandom: fans and industry in Brazilian Whovians
Simone Pereira de Sá (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil) and Simone Evangelista Cunha (Federal Fluminense University, UFF, Brazil): Haters beyond the hate: stigma and prejudice against funk carioca on YouTube
Adriana Amaral (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil), Rosana Vieira de Souza (Feevale University, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Camila Monteiro (University of Huddersfield, England): Fan activism: concepts, resistances and practices in Brazilian Digital Culture
Panel Q: Ownership/Fan Producer Relations
Rebecca Johnson (University of Southern California, USA): Doing Double Duty: The Music Supervisor as Fan and Professional
Ann-Kristin Hensen (TU Dortmund University, Germany): Who Started the Fire? – “Hannigram” and the Discourse between Fans and Producers
James Rendell (Cardiff University, Wales): The Royal We: Ongoing Fan-Text Relationships With New (Para)textual Reincarnations of Battle Royale
Helena Dare-Edwards (University of East Anglia, England): Bringing Criminology to Fan Studies: Reintegrative Shaming, Intra-Fandom, and Fan/Producer Relationships
Panel R: Politics and Activism
Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, England): The World of Avatar Audiences: From Fan Studies to Political Mobilisation
Ally McCrow-Young (Lund University, Sweden): Consumer Activism and the Milk Wars: Passion and Sites of Resistance in Oatly’s Fans
Leandro Augusto Borges Lima (King’s College London, England): Political conversation on gender and sexuality in Mass Effect: a Brazil-UK study with gamers
Megan Farnel (University of Alberta, Canada): Hot Fandom, Cool Gamers: On Gamers and/as Fans
