[Air-L] AoIR 2023 panel on Identities, polarisation and fandom

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Hi! I’d love to get involved/learn more. I am actually heading to my own wedding (so will be out of pibkey for the weekend), but I saw this come in and figured no harm in asking for more info while it’s top of mind.

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On Thu, Feb 23 2023 at 5:43 PM, Sebastian Svegaard < air-l at listserv.aoir.org > wrote:

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> Dear colleagues!
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> We are working to put together a panel for AoIR around an intersecting
> theme of fandom & identity, and polarisation & partisanship. How do people
> form identities and communities online within, besides and against
> capitalist economics - and in connection or disconnection with their
> political values? We currently have 2-3 papers and are looking for more
> contributors. This is deliberately kept very open, as we are interested in
> getting a wide range on perspectives, but some rough ideas we had were
> themes such as:
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> - Capitalist clashes in internet culture
> - Political fandom/fans
> - Political communication and identities
> - Intersections of identities in religions, fandoms and politics
> - Data collection and media consumption intersecting with identity
> formation
> - Everything else that might connect to any of the themes
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> Please get in touch if you already have a paper that would like a home,
> have an idea for a contribution or connection, or just want to hear
> details about the other papers involved already. We're more than happy to
> shift ideas around to build something together.
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> References include:
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> Barnes, Renee. (2022.) *Fandom and Polarization in Online Political
> Discussion*. Palgrave.
> [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14039-6](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14039-6)
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> Catucci, Nick. (2022.) “The Two Americas: The *White Lotus* Fans and
> *Reacher* Fans” in *The Atlantic.*
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> Miller, Lucy. 2020. "*Wolfenstein II* and MAGA as Fandom." In "Fandom and
> Politics," edited by Ashley Hinck and Amber Davisson, special issue,
> *Transformative Works and Cultures,* no. 32.
> [https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1717](https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1717).
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> Petersen, L. N. (2022). *Mediatized fan play : moods, modes and dark play
> in networked communities*. Routledge.
> [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351001847](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351001847)
> (edited)
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> Stanfill, M. and Condis, M. (eds.) (2014.) Special edition of
> Transformative Works and Cultures on Fandom and/as Labor.
> [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/16](https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/16)
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> Sebastian F. K. Svegaard
> Post-doctoral researcher, Queensland University of Technology PhD Media
> Studies
> AFHEA
> MA Musicology
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