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Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr
Examines how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are converging and opening up informal spaces for young people to engage with feminism.
Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. Feminist Fandom functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform, Tumblr.
Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. Feminist Fandom functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform, Tumblr.
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218 pages, Hardcover
Published December 14, 2023
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February 19, 2025
I am a woman of Stem and not a woman of the social arts etc which this falls under but the one thing that unites us all: fandom.
As someone who was not in tumblr in its heyday (but was on other various SM sites) this was like reading about my own experiences within fandom (especially about feminist becoming via fandom because … that was me). The way Briony examines the impact of Tumblr on feminist becoming, feminist teaching and feminist learning (and unlearning) is insightful and remarkably researched. She presents it not as a utopian place as can sometimes easily be done but as a safer place where feminists from all races and genders and sexuality and backgrounds can anonymously (or not) talk about a mutual shared fandom, and in that process, also learn about themselves and others and find a commonality with other feminists when it can be difficult to do this in the real world. I never thought about how these places afforded a place for people to learn these topics which before, would have been inaccessible to them due to lack of various privileges and this book just shows how important tumblr (and other social media sites in the 2010’s) has been in forming a new generation of feminists who come from all walks of life!
As someone who was not in tumblr in its heyday (but was on other various SM sites) this was like reading about my own experiences within fandom (especially about feminist becoming via fandom because … that was me). The way Briony examines the impact of Tumblr on feminist becoming, feminist teaching and feminist learning (and unlearning) is insightful and remarkably researched. She presents it not as a utopian place as can sometimes easily be done but as a safer place where feminists from all races and genders and sexuality and backgrounds can anonymously (or not) talk about a mutual shared fandom, and in that process, also learn about themselves and others and find a commonality with other feminists when it can be difficult to do this in the real world. I never thought about how these places afforded a place for people to learn these topics which before, would have been inaccessible to them due to lack of various privileges and this book just shows how important tumblr (and other social media sites in the 2010’s) has been in forming a new generation of feminists who come from all walks of life!
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