Archive-lensing of fan franchise histories: Chronicle, guide, catalyst

Krikowa, N; Comerford, C

Archive-lensing of fan franchise histories: Chronicle, guide, catalyst

Krikowa, N

Comerford, C

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Publisher:: Organization for Transformative Works
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022, 37
Issue Date:: 2022-03-14

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dc.contributor.author	Krikowa, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3251-1361
dc.contributor.author	Comerford, C
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-15T04:20:14Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-15T04:20:14Z
dc.date.issued	2022-03-14
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022, 37
dc.identifier.issn	1941-2258
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/155239
dc.description.abstract	Archives of fan knowledge for pop-culture franchises serve as important historical repositories of knowledge that are created, curated, and maintained by passionate fans. The archive—both historically and in the contemporary form of the fan wiki—serves as an important motivation in terms of creating further fan knowledge and nostalgically returning to knowledge that has already been historicized. Fan archives serve as important narrative and cultural-history touchstones. We investigate Star Trek's wiki, Memory Alpha; the Battlestar Galactica wiki; and the Xena: Warrior Princess AUSXIP archive as examples of current and historical archives. Collectively, they articulate the concept of archive-lensing, whereby three distinct modes of fan franchise archive engagement can be seen: the archive as chronicle, providing new information; the archive as guide, orienting new and old fans to franchise content; and the archive as catalyst, stoking a return—nostalgic or otherwise—to a franchise that has been dormant.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Organization for Transformative Works
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	2002 Cultural Studies, 2005 Literary Studies
dc.title	Archive-lensing of fan franchise histories: Chronicle, guide, catalyst
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	37
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies
utslib.for	2005 Literary Studies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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dc.date.updated	2022-03-15T04:20:12Z
pubs.publication-status	Published
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Abstract:

Archives of fan knowledge for pop-culture franchises serve as important historical repositories of knowledge that are created, curated, and maintained by passionate fans. The archive—both historically and in the contemporary form of the fan wiki—serves as an important motivation in terms of creating further fan knowledge and nostalgically returning to knowledge that has already been historicized. Fan archives serve as important narrative and cultural-history touchstones. We investigate Star Trek's wiki, Memory Alpha; the Battlestar Galactica wiki; and the Xena: Warrior Princess AUSXIP archive as examples of current and historical archives. Collectively, they articulate the concept of archive-lensing, whereby three distinct modes of fan franchise archive engagement can be seen: the archive as chronicle, providing new information; the archive as guide, orienting new and old fans to franchise content; and the archive as catalyst, stoking a return—nostalgic or otherwise—to a franchise that has been dormant.

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