Porn consumers as fans

McKee, A

Porn consumers as fans

McKee, A

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Citation:: A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, 2018, pp. 509 - 520
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	McKee, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-2061	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, 2018, pp. 509 - 520	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781119237167	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/127850
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include a range of behaviors beyond the most obviously positive and productive the question has arisen “Who isn’t a fan?". A problem for studies of porn studies is that dominant academic approaches to studying pornography consumption have favored models of consumers as agentless, i.e., addicts or objects of media effects. Studying porn fans addresses both these problems by returning our attention to the agency of porn consumers. Fan studies is defined as the study of agentic cultural consumption, this is neither tautological nor unimportant, but continues to provide a robust and meaningful project for academic research. With this insight in place, this chapter considers some examples of porn fandom, including collecting practices, taxonomizing, evaluation practices, and community building.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100808
dc.relation.ispartof	A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1002/9781119237211.ch32	en_US
dc.title	Porn consumers as fans	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Faculty Administration
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Studying porn consumers as fans supports useful intellectual moves for arguments in both fan studies and porn studies. A problem for fan studies is that as its object of study has expanded to include a range of behaviors beyond the most obviously positive and productive the question has arisen “Who isn’t a fan?". A problem for studies of porn studies is that dominant academic approaches to studying pornography consumption have favored models of consumers as agentless, i.e., addicts or objects of media effects. Studying porn fans addresses both these problems by returning our attention to the agency of porn consumers. Fan studies is defined as the study of agentic cultural consumption, this is neither tautological nor unimportant, but continues to provide a robust and meaningful project for academic research. With this insight in place, this chapter considers some examples of porn fandom, including collecting practices, taxonomizing, evaluation practices, and community building.

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