Meaning of aca/fan | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“This suggestion coincides with the concept of the “scholar-fan” or “aca/fan” developed by media studies scholar Henry Jenkins in the early 1990s and still a subject of lively debate today.”

“This is not to say there is no worth in exploring the term DIY preservation in this context but rather that more work needs to be done in exploring the ways in which popular music archivists, fans, aca/fen and other scholars evoke it as a kind of discursive strategy or resource to support specific music heritage projects (e.g. see Baker and Huber 2012).”

“Aca/fans argue that a person can be an academic and a fan and simultaneously enjoy and assess aesthetic merit in various types of texts.”

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