aca-fandom

See also: acafandom

English

Noun

aca-fandom (countable and uncountable, plural aca-fandoms)

1. Alternative form of acafandom.
   • 2013, Ernest Mathijs, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, page 100:

     The feminist aca-fandom of Ginger Snaps needs to be seen in the context of an overall change in horror fandom demographics (where college-educated women now make up a near-majority faction).

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

     They have also reduced the distance between fandom and the adademy by proclaiming their dual identities. Aca-fandom has therefore questioned the norms of academic subjectivity.

   • 2020 November, Matt Hills, “Shared trajectories and ‘figures of the fan audience’ in comics studies and fan studies: Arrested development … or transmedial developments?”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 17, number 2, page 166:

     And if aca-fandom is maintained as a fan studies’ badge of belonging, then there’s the additional ‘risk of creating a field in which only certain felt scholarships [or aca-fandoms] are welcome, with others dismissed or not recognized or simply not invited to be part of the conversation;’ […]