Fandom

To be absolutely clear: [Hugo-voting Fandom] is not the same set as [Fandom], and certainly not the same as [Readers Of Genre Fiction], though all three have significant overlaps.

MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles 2009

Fandom is particularly suitable for producing multiple prototypes because multiplicity is at the heart of fan cultures: you can have fifty first-time romantic encounters between the same two characters, or five hundred, because fanworks are not constrained to follow a single canon.

Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

I would herein like to posit a General Theory of Fandoms, which states, concisely, that the Quality of the Fandom is Inversely Proportional to the Quality of the Product it's based around.

27th November '08 flidgetjerome 2008

A poster on SF Fandom is the latest to do so, positing a couple of scenarios that don't mesh with Rodenberry's vision, but would certainly add some spice.

Tube Bits For 08/06/2007 2007

A poster on SF Fandom is the latest to do so, positing a couple of scenarios that don't mesh with Rodenberry's vision, but would certainly add some spice.

August 2007 2007

Jeremiah Tolbert says Be a Positive Force in Fandom, Not an @$$hole.

SF Tidbits for 8/20/09 2009

Over at dashPunk, C.E. Dorsett posted a rebuttal of sorts suggesting that it’s not that fandom is splintering its that the term science fiction fandom has been co-opted in Fandom vs. The Scifi Channel.

What Makes a Fan? | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008

And it seems to me that it revolves around the idea of Fandom as a community.

Well, That Didn’t Take Long « Whatever 2007

More importantly, much of the most influential work from the earlier days of what has come to be call Fandom is outright apalling in its depictions of the marginalized.

Wet Asphalt 2009

"Fandom" actually dates as far back as the 1930s, and that's a conservative estimate!

26th October '03 2003