Well I think most of us who identify as fandom studies folks are not interested in representative samples of anything. I’m much more interested in case studies and explaining phenomenon.
Well I think most of us who identify as fandom studies folks are not interested in representative samples of anything. I’m much more interested in case studies and explaining phenomenon.
I would say the people making generalizations about huge swaths are usually approaching it from an audience studies or mass media studies perspective and there’s a lot of disagreement between approaches — I saw this playing out in my own dept