Fandom und Crowdfunding

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift "New Media & Society", laut Eigenbeschreibung "a top-ranked, peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes key research from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, the political and information sciences and the humanities", ist dem Thema Crowdfunding gewidmet, drei Artikel befassen sich mit Thema Fandom und Crowdfunding:

• Paul Booth: Crowdfunding: A Spimatic application of digital fandom
• Suzanne Scott: The moral economy of crowdfunding and the transformative capacity of fan-ancing
• Matt Hills: Veronica Mars, fandom, and the 'Affective Economics' of crowdfunding poachers

Citizen archivists

Sehr interessanter artikel von Jesse Jarnow, der auch Bezug zum (Musik-)Fandom hat: "Why Collecting Matters: Citizen Archivists and the Battle for Future Pasts" (Wondering Sound, 2. Jänner 2015): "While physical media is slowly becoming a thing of the past, there still remains plenty to collect. There's a vast musical world that falls beyond Spotify’s officially licensed purview, and even outside the realm of established retailers like Amazon and iTunes".