aca-fandom

plural aca-fandoms

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of acafandom.

   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.

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

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   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, Ernest Mathijs, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, page 100

   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;’ […]

   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