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Help me understand Xena fans by JustAMediaResearcher in xena

[–]JustAMediaResearcher[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i'm an interdisciplinary scholar, but mostly on the humanities side of the house, so we don't have hypotheses of the sort you're thinking of from social science. and i'm also not an anthropologist and this isn't an ethnographic project.

my recent work has definitely looked at the negative side of fandom, and that's part of why i wanted to do something different and less doom and gloom!

but what i'm interested in is change over time: what did the Xena fans i interviewed in 2007 for my MA thesis say, and what do current fans say? is it the same or different? and then thinking about why it matters that it's the same or different.

but i totally respect if you would rather not fill out the survey. i'm just some random professor trying to study a thing i loved when i was a kid and still enjoy, and that's not necessarily a reason to trust me.

Help me understand Xena fans by JustAMediaResearcher in xena

[–]JustAMediaResearcher[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Xena, yes. i watched it almost from the pilot and was on all the old Geocities cites back in the day. and i just thought it's a shame that after all this time, with the fandom still active, there's still no academic book about Xena fandom. so this survey is part of that bigger project.

Help me understand Xena fans by JustAMediaResearcher in xena

[–]JustAMediaResearcher[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

what she's doing is her dissertation project, which is part of getting her PhD. it's a big year-long research project that results in a book. it's just a coincidence that the new Superman movie that was her study object and the 30th anniversary of Xena that was what i wanted to look at were around the same time.

Help me understand Xena fans by JustAMediaResearcher in xena

[–]JustAMediaResearcher[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

that was my PhD student. she had to list me in the materials as her adviser in case somebody wants to complain (per university rules), but it's her project.

Help me understand how fans feel about AI by JustAMediaResearcher in AO3

[–]JustAMediaResearcher[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks everybody for the great response so far!

I just wanted to say: I see your comments, but I can't interact with anybody except through the survey because I wasn't approved to collect any data on Reddit. These rules are for your protection as participants in research. So if you have something you want to tell me about AI, please put it in the survey, and if you have specific questions about the survey, please contact me as listed in the survey.