Fanthropology: Who Changes More?
My brother and I grew up in the same house. We had pretty much the same experiences: we had the same teachers, went on the same family vacations, saw...
Fanthropology: Self-Storytelling
Everyone has a mental story about themselves. A basic narrative about who they are as a person. Kind of an expansion on the basic idea of...
Fanthropology: Pythonists
When they were first casting Spamalot, the stage production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hank Azaria landed the role of Sir Lancelot, and most...
Fanthropology: Where Fan Studies Have Come
I first became interested in studying fandom in the late 1990s. Henry Jenkins' ground-breaking Textual Poachers had come out in 1992 and his...
Fanthropology: Fans vs Fandom
Today's question is: can you be a fan without being in fandom? And it's corollary: can you be in fandom without being a fan? Perhaps...
Fanthropology: Eclipse Chasers
Today, a total solar eclipse will be visible across much of the United States. Despite the vast amount of hype surrounding the event, total solar...
Fanthropology: Internal Strife
This past weekend, all five members of GeekGirlCon's operations team resigned in a fairly public manner, using the corporate email to send a message...
Fanthropology: SDCC & Pop Culture
Comic-Con International just wrapped up in San Diego and, by all the accounts I've seen, was generally a rousing success. I didn't see any reports of...
Fanthropology: Reclaiming Terms
Otaku is a loan word from Japanese. The original definition meant "a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular...
Fanthropology: Creator vs Creation
Let's say that you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes. You love the character's use of logic and deductive reasoning, and you try to follow his example...