Feminist Fandom
Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr
Briony Hannell
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Feminist Fandom
Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr
Briony Hannell
About This Book
Examines how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are converging and opening up informal spaces for young people to engage with feminism. Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. Feminist Fandom functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform, Tumblr.