Meta question + podfic + writing

[luzula]

1) I feel stupid for not knowing this, but: what is meant by the expression "media fandom"? I mean, don't we experience everything through a medium, whether it's books, TV, movies, music, comics, etc? I can't figure out what things wouldn't be included.

2) tinypinkmouse recorded a podfic of my Sleeping Beauty story Skogens hjärta (the English version is The Seed of a Forest). And wow, I love it so much! It sounds like a whole new story, and I just love her Finnish-Swedish accent. This podfic made my day (or possibly my whole week). medrin, you should listen to this--I think you'd enjoy it.

3) Am working on another fairy tale fic, and this time it's Little Red Riding Hood. I know, I know, I should be working on my Remix story (or on the second draft of my other WIP), but this one just wants to come out. I've written 1700 words of it in two days, which is very fast writing for me.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

i agree it's not a very exact term -- i imagine it's about all media as you say, not just TV or movies or comics, and media to distinguish it from, say, sports fandom or postage stamp collecting or something like that. we're fans of works that come in media, i guess.

i thought it might be short for mass media, but that makes less sense because of the books thing.

[luzula]

According to comments below, "media fandom" seems to be narrower than "being a fan of things that come in media", and have historical origins. But yeah, it's not really self-evident what it means when you first come across it.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

See http://fanlore.org/wiki/Media_Fandom

It's a historical fannish term. Keep in mind that zines with fanfic from multiple fandoms were called multi media zines.

[luzula]

Thanks for the link! : )

[cathexys]

It's a term that gets used when we try to separate different types of fans, like vidding comes out of "media fandom" whereas AMV has a different fannish trajectory coming out of anime. Really, the exact term would be Live action Western media fandoms, but the problem is that this is where the roots lie, with comics, cartoons, music, actors, books, etc being part of it now.

The term would be used, for example, to distinguish traditional Sherlock Holmes fans, who have their own network, terminology etc, from the SH fans that sprung up around the 2009 film and the 2010 BBC Sherlock. It's not that they are necessarily all that different except...they kind of are, bringing their own tropes, habits, terms with them. (I.e., in this case, Sherlockians/Holmesians call what we call fanfic pastiches...and many are horrified by our fast certainty that the two men are more than cohabitating :)

For one particular summary of this history, see Coppa, Francesca - History of Media Fandom

[luzula]

Huh, so that's what it means. Thanks for the explanation, and for the link! : )