aca-fan
See also: acafan
English
Noun
aca-fan (plural aca-fans)
- Alternative form of acafan
- 2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), →ISBN, page xi:
- On this point, I find myself much more solidly aligned with the tradition of female aca-fan than with many male scholars working in this space.
- 2013, Ernest Mathijs, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps, University of Toronto Press (2013), →ISBN, page 100:
- Above all, feminist aca-fans of Ginger Snaps add to the general understanding of the film an element of complexity and sophistication.
- 2014, Cornel Sandvoss & Laura Kearns, "From Interpretive Communities to Interpretive Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media", in The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures (eds. Stijn Reijnders, Koos Zwaan, & Linda Duits), Ashgate (2014), →ISBN, page 93:
- The sample was controlled for educational capital to ensure that snowballing would not lead to a narrow sample of 'aca-fans' whose combined scholarly and fan interest might offer a biased sample that does not reflect broader patterns of engagements among ordinary fans.
- 2013, Henry Jenkins & Suzanne Scott, "Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later", in Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge (2013), →ISBN, page xi: