Filling the gap: An exploration into fan studies.
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Authors
Type
Journal Article
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
Interdisciplinarity involves the interaction, combination, and integration of theories, concepts, and methods across different disciplines—and fan studies is commonly seen as an interdisciplinary field of research. This contribution sheds light on the question of interdisciplinarity by investigating contemporary notions of theory and methods used in two discipline-related scholarly journals through a metadata analysis of the keywords as well as a content analysis of fifty randomly selected abstracts in order to investigate the dominant theoretical approaches and methods used in the field of fan studies.
Keywords
Inductive content analysis, Interdisciplinarity, Journalism studies, Metadata analyses
Journal
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC)
Volume
Vol. 37 (2022): Fandom Histories
Number ( Month )
March
Pages (or article number)
1-9
