#like surely we should have moved on from Pugh’s 2005 ‘The Democratic Genre’ by now?

[gothhabiba]

so much ‘analysis’ of fandom and fanfiction still has this pervading air of ‘teehee, can you believe I’m doing a serious analysis of fandom and fanfiction?!’ which sticks it firmly in the zone of merely recounting things which fans do and terms they use (because it’s assumed that the audience isn’t familiar with them) while failing to really provide the ‘analysis’ part

#like surely we should have moved on from Pugh’s 2005 ‘The Democratic Genre’ by now? #and yet I see her conclusions (really just summaries of things fans do) re-discovered regularly #fandom #fanfiction