All are invited to play in my roundrobin!

In my anthropology and fan discourse a few posts ago, some brilliant comment by (nancyblue), but the whole thread is brilliant, sparked a thought.

Why not pick a text and have a bunch of different aca-fen from all sorts of disciplines talk abut how they would analyze it from the perspective of their discipline, i.e. what sort of methods, assumptions, approaches, theories, etc. would come into play.

People liked it, so let's do it. (Feel free to comment, anyone; I'm interested in the academic disciplinary issues, but this post isn't restricted to only aca-fen).

I thought a while about what to pick (didn't want to assign novels!) (didn't want to avoid images!), and then thought, huh, what about these two which I gave my grad students to think about and discuss at the start of the term in my media literacies class.

So:


The Machine is Us/Using Us by mwesch

and

XKCD's great map of online communities

Let the multidisciplinary aca-fan roundrobin begin!

Here are links! You can comment in either space or in both (it takes about a day for the responses to get posted on Henry's blog, and he has a post explaining why the need for moderation, given the spam he gets)!

This post is a mirror post of the third installment of the summer gender and fan studies discussion.

Queering the Discussion
Part One posted in 'Confessions', Part One in LJd

Part Two posted in 'Confessions', Part Two in LJ

Sean Griffin Faculty Page
Robin Anne Reid Professional LJ, Faculty Page

Queering the Discussion: The first installment of part three of the Gender and Fan Studies Discussion, by Sean Griffin and Robin Anne Reid is up at Henry's blog (Confessions) and in the fandebate, here. Read and discuss at will!

Queering the Discussion
Full Introduction

( I began writing this introduction for the collaborative discussion on gender, academia, and fandom hosted in Henry Jenkins' blog, but I soon realized at over 4000 words that this piece was too long for that forum. Since I enjoyed writing it so much, I'm posting here, as part of the  )