aca/fan

plural aca/fans · plural aca/fen

1. alternativeAlternative form of acafan.

   Aca/fans argue that a person can be an academic and a fan and simultaneously enjoy and assess aesthetic merit in various types of texts.

   2018, Nicole L. Wilson, “Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fanfiction? April Lindner and the Brontë Sisters”, in Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Sara K. Day, editors, The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 171

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   This suggestion coincides with the concept of the “scholar-fan” or “aca/fan” developed by media studies scholar Henry Jenkins in the early 1990s and still a subject of lively debate today.

   2008, Michael Ann Holly, Marquard Smith, editors, What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, page 161

   This is not to say there is no worth in exploring the term DIY preservation in this context but rather that more work needs to be done in exploring the ways in which popular music archivists, fans, aca/fen and other scholars evoke it as a kind of discursive strategy or resource to support specific music heritage projects (e.g. see Baker and Huber 2012).

   2015, Mark Duffett, Anja Löbert, “Trading Offstage Photos: Take That Fan Culture and the Collaborative Preservation of Popular Music Heritage”, in Sarah Baker, editor, Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Unpacking DIY Popular Music Heritage Practice), page 162