Research!

[featherynscale]

I need some help from the flist on this one, particularly those of you who consider yourself fannish. I'm interested in what the experience of fandom is like for people, generally, I think. If you could take a moment and comment below, I'd appreciate it.

What I'm particularly interested in knowing about are things like: how/when do you know you are a fan? What are your criteria for determining who is and is not a part of a fandom? What sorts of activities, if any, are you likely to participate in due to or related to your fandom? Does it affect your language or other behavior outside of strictly fandom-related activities? How does your fandom play out in your day-to-day life, if at all? That sort of thing.

Seriously. Talk to me about fandom. It's for a class I'm working on.

Thanks!

Comments

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of... um... I liked a Dixie Chick song, I still listen to their CD on occasion. So that might make me a fandom level 1. Now if I were to dress like them, hit every concert in the 4-state area, have a special room enshrined to them... that would be fandom level 10. So I suppose it depends where on that sliding scale one wishes to concentrate.