Feminist Fandom

<b>Examines how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption production and critique are converging and opening up informal spaces for young people to engage with feminism.</b><br/><br/>Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications feminist cultural studies sociology internet studies and fan studies Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. <i>Feminist Fandom</i> functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform Tumblr.