Before my computer overloads from too many things being open:

• http://fandebate.livejournal.com/
• http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-gcLB-7FkBQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fans,+bloggers,+and+gamers+:+exploring+participatory+culture&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IlD8T7nfPMjZigeV25H8Bg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Fans%2C%20bloggers%2C%20and%20gamers%20%3A%20exploring%20participatory%20culture&f=false
• http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=42
• http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/research/researchgroups/studyareas/audienceandfanstudies/index.html
• http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc
• http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/fan-studies-101/
• http://fanlore.org/wiki/Aca-Fan
• http://books.google.com.au/books?id=K--bJVZ2QlIC&pg=PT11&lpg=PT11&dq=3+generations+fandom+studies+fan&source=bl&ots=lZJqoo3xvi&sig=fbzxp8xpExEkch32s6y46bOQy9g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dd_8T6nUEdGviQeQ0oXhBg&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=3%20generations%20fandom%20studies%20fan&f=false

The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media (an incomplete summarisation and analysis)

Edited by Lisa A. Lewis 
Routledge 1992

"Historical propensity to treat media audiences as passive & controlled, its tendency to privilege aesthetic superiority in programming, its reluctance to support consumerism, its belief in media industry manipulation. The popular press, as well, has stigmatised fandom by emphasising danger, abnormality and silliness. And the public deny their own fandom, carry on secret lives as fans rick the stigma that comes from being a fan."

"Perhaps only a fan can appreciate the depth feeling, the gratifications, the importance for coping with everyday life that fandom represents."

PART I: Defining fandom

Fandom as Pathology: The consequences of characterisation by Jolie Jensen

• There are two types of fans: obsessed loner and the hysterical crowd
• Obsessed loner = intense fantasy relationship with celebrity figures -> stalking, threatening, killing
• Hysterical crowd = drugs, violence, alcohol, sexual and racial imagery associated (young hysterical fans)
• The fan is defined as a response to the star system. This means that passivity is ascribed to the fan he or she is seen as being enthralled /brought into existence by the modern celebrity system via mass media. 
• "Erotomania" or the "Othello Syndrom" is an increasingly narcissistic society or maybe the fantasy life we see on television
• Caughey = media addicted age, celebrities function as role models for fan who engage in 'artificial social relation'
• Schickel = compares deranged fans and serial killers to 'us' ("normal" fans)
• Fandom as psychological compensation - psychological version of the mass
• Society critique = Fandom, especially 'excessive' fandom, is defined as a form of psychological compensation, an attempt to make up for all that modern life lacks. 
• Para-social interaction = surrogate relationship - inadequately imitates normal relationships

The Cultural Economy of the Fandom by John Fiske

• Fandom is typically associated with cultural forms that dominate value system denigrates: music, novels, comics, celebrities
• Fans fiercely discriminate against what makes a (true) fan and what falls in that fandom
• D'Acci (1988): 'Cagney and Lacey' Fans -> Use show = higher self esteem, confidence to stand up for self, adult woman took inspiration to risk starting own business
• This popular discrimination involves the selection of texts that offer fans opportunities to make meanings of their social identities an social experiences that are self interested and functional
• Cultural tastes as practices are produced by social rather than individual differences, and so textual discrimination and social discrimination are part of the same cultural process within and between fans just as much as between fans and other popular audiences
• Fans make their culture out of the commercial commodities of cultural industries
• Fandom is a heightened form of popular culture in industrial societies that the fan is an 'excessive reader' who differs from the 'ordinary' one in degree that than kind

PART II: Fandom & Gender

Something More than Love: Fan stories on film by Lisa A. Lewis

This is a list of films that portray the extremes of fandom and fans:

• Hollywood or bust
• The Fan
• Comeback to the Five and Dime Jimmie Dean, Jimmie Dean
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand
• King of Comedy
• Heartbreak Hotel

PART III: Fans and industry

Fans as Tastemakers: Viewers of Quality Television by Sue Brower

Fans dictating the course and popularity of a show and how it relates. 

• Role for a play incirculating social and aesthetic opinions in our culture
• Television series develops a following among people who both discover and create in Dick Hebdige's terms, a 'symbolic fit' between certain expressive materials and their lives (199, 11). 
• By their activity in relation to the cultural form, they refine and enhance its social image while, as fans, claiming it as symbolic of their identity

List of books to track down and borrow

State library most likely:

• Theorizing Fandom: Subculture and Identity by Cheryl Drake Harris
• Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins
• The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media by Lisa A. Lewis
• Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith

Lists of dissertations and theses

For the purpose of research and analysis of my first chapter: Defining and exploring the history and term of Fandom

• Close Encounters of a Different Kind: A study of science fiction fan culture and its interaction with multiple literacies by Gail A. Bondi
• Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys - Ethnography of Online Slash/Yaoi Fans by Sandra Youssef
• Academia Explores the Final Frontier: A look at fandom theses and dissertations by Karen Ann Yost

Websites to take note of:

Dr Gafia's Fan Terms:
It's pretty much as the title says
http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fan_terms/

The definition of 'Fandom':
Notice how it was first known to be used in 1903 and the comments section
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fandom

"Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture"
By Henry Jenkins:
Online gold
http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/starwars.html


Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet
By Kristina Hellekson and Kristina Busse
Interesting and awesome, a contemporary take on cyberfandom. 
http://karenhellekson.com/?page_id=38

List of Fandoms

I initially wanted to focus on two specific fandoms, one television series and one film series. I talked to teacher about it and we've decided to just go with television fandom in general so now I have a lot to work with. Here is a list that shall accumulate as days past. I'll find a list widget somewhere for this blog. I'll stick to science fiction and fantasy genres.

• Joss Whedon-verse:
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel
  Firefly
  Dollhouse
  Dr Horrible
• True Blood
• Vampire Diaries
• Doctor Who
• Star Trek
• Game of Thrones
• Supernatural
• Sherlock