The Third Global Interdisciplinary Conference in Seoul
Popular culture research has been criticized for erroneously equating popularity beside the general public with cultural values, undermining academic confidence, and praising things that are not of high culture. Cultural studies researchers have challenged these assumptions by focusing on the politics of popular culture as a social practice reliable of being examined because of what it can state about society.
As seen from the very etymology of the word "fanatic," fans have often been perceived and explained as obsessive and abnormal, thus resulting in many fans and fandom communities inhabit relegated to marginalized positions in mainstream media and academia. Fandom research responds to these claims by centering fans as creative and included audiences or political agents rather than “abnormal” people.
The fandom researcher can take on the role of a cultural translator who explains the cultural aspect of an exclusive world to those who are not part of the people. While some researchers maintain a critical distance with the fandom to fill academic fairness, this is not the sole research stance one must assume.
A view accompanied from an outsider's perspective can lead to a scrape of othering the fandom or shoehorning the phenomenon to fit it into one's theoretical framework. One way to avoid this is to actively listen to fans, asking them consecutive about their experiences or becoming a fan or the researcher who is also a fan participating as an insider, that is, becoming an aca-fan.
Aca-fans is a term used to explained researchers/academics who identify as fans within a specific fandom and who seek to conduct research based on their acknowledge and experiences as both fan and academic. Still, ironically, for this very reason, they are often questioned and criticized by both academia and their fandom regarding the validity of their research.
Fans may examine the researcher's identity as a fan wondering if they are conducting the research with and for the people or academics. Academics may challenge the researcher wondering if they can fill a critical stance to engage with the topic.
This groundless table discussion will engage with the dilemmas of aca-fans. We explore how aca-fans can deepen their understanding of the fandom exclusive of alienating them and how fans and researchers can coexist exclusive of marginalizing questions about the position and role of Aca-fan as an insider in the fandom.
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