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: The Sports Fan Myth
Sportswriter John Tunis identified what he called The Great Sports Myth in his book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics. Tunis pointed out that the idea...
Fanthropology: The Authorities
Nearly every fandom is a pretty loosely knit group. Even those that have formal fan clubs associated with them aren't all-inclusive. After all, since...
Fanthropology: Fans of Fandom
I first became interested in going beyond studying my favorite comics and TV shows, and into the people who become fans of them back in the late...
Fanthropology: Fandom’s Growing Up?
Back in 2008, I went looking for various solutions for storing my comics collection. I had just inhereted my father's old collection, essentially...
Fanthropology: The Diversity Issue
At C2E2 this past weekend, tens of thousands of people came out to McCormick Place in Chicago to buys toys, comics, and video games; get signatures...