Participations
is an online journal devoted to the broad field of audience and reception
studies. It aims to bring works and debates from various fields concerned with
media and culture into dialogue. The journal has pioneered a system of open
refereeing for all contributions, designed to encourage open, critical debate
among researchers. More information.
Considering
how crucially comic book marketing depends on loyal customers, especially fans,
and to how great an extent the ever‐expanding franchises surrounding Marvel’s
or DC’s comic worlds rely on user participation and fandom, it seems striking
that the connection between comics studies and fan studies has hardly been
explored in any great detail so far. Is this because comics studies focus on
the text and fan studies on its recipient? Depending on the respective national
background, comics studies, may have stronger roots in (comparative) literary
studies, art history, or philology while fan studies are predominantly grounded
in media and cultural studies or in sociology (focusing on individual and mass
consumption practices or group phenomena).
The aim of
the themed section is to bring together contributions that address overlaps and
frictions between fan and comics studies. Potential topics for contributions
may include, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- In which ways do approaches and perspectives, topics, and objects of investigation differ in comics studies and fan studies?
- In how far can comics studies profit from fan studies’ approaches and conceptions – and vice versa?
- Which production, distribution, and consumption practices of comics and other media formats rely on and inspire fan cultural practices?
- What is the role that cult fandom plays within professional contexts, either in the industry (as comic or media fans aspire to become illustrators, designers, authors, producers etc.), or within academia (as comics scholar‐fans and film/tv scholar‐fans emerge as leading figures within certain disciplinary fields)?
- Are there gendered notions for the respective fields – perhaps a tendency for comparatively ‘male-dominated’ comics studies to stand out against more ‘female‐oriented’ fan studies?
- Historical perspectives on comics studies and fan studies
The editors
are happy to receive submissions from a variety of disciplines and are
particularly interested in encouraging submissions from a range of research
contexts. We welcome theoretical essays as well as empirical studies from
various methodologies.
Please
submit a 500-word abstract along with a 100-word author bio to
sven.stollfuss@uni-leipzig.de. Please title the email “Participations Themed
Section Fandom/comics – your last name.”
Articles
will be published in English. We recognize that writing in English can be challenging
for authors who are not native speakers. As editors, we will help where we can,
but we kindly ask authors to arrange for proofreading by a native speaker
before confirming the acceptance of a submission. Please indicate in your
proposal if you have access to proofreading, so that a good standard of
presentation can be ensured.
Please
visit the journal’s information for submission guidelines.
Deadlines
Abstracts
Due: October 31 2019
Decisions
to Authors: November 30 2019
Full
submissions: May 1 2020
Final
drafts: September 1 2020
Publication:
November 2020
Co-Editors:
Sophie G. Einwächter (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany); Vanessa Ossa
(University of Tuebingen, Germany); Véronique Sina (University of Cologne, Germany),
and Sven Stollfuß (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Contact
Info: Sven Stollfuß, Junior Professor for Digital Media Culture, University of Leipzig, sven.stollfuss@uni-leipzig.de
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