aca-fan

See also: aca/fan and acafan

English

Noun

aca-fan (plural aca-fans or aca-fen)

1. Alternative form of acafan
   • 2006, Henry Jenkins, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Now, I think all of that work paved the way for a whole generation of aca-fen, as I like to call them; that is, people who are both academics and fans, for whom those identities are not problematic to mix and combine, and who are able then to write in a more open way about their experience of fandom without the “obligation of defensiveness,” without the need to defend the community.

   • 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 344:

     As aca-fen who started our journeys as academics and members of media fandom at almost the same time (in 2002) and in the same place (Mumbai), we wanted to look back at the different experiences we’ve had while coming to terms with our identities as fans, and in particular as fans of color.

   • 2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), →ISBN, page xi:

     On this point, I find myself much more solidly aligned with the tradition of female aca-fan than with many male scholars working in this space.

   • 2013, Ernest Mathijs, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 100:

     Above all, feminist aca-fans of Ginger Snaps add to the general understanding of the film an element of complexity and sophistication.

   • 2013, Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 268:

     Perhaps because aca-fen often teach in fields based on the interrogation of media cultures, their status as fans has not, moreover, led to their pedigree as academics being questioned.

   • 2014, Cornel Sandvoss, Laura Kearns, “From Interpretive Communities to Interpretive Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media”, in Stijn Reijnders, Koos Zwaan, Linda Duits, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 93:

     The sample was controlled for educational capital to ensure that snowballing would not lead to a narrow sample of 'aca-fans' whose combined scholarly and fan interest might offer a biased sample that does not reflect broader patterns of engagements among ordinary fans.