Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Transparency and reciprocity

Electronic data

  • 2016_Transparency_and_Reciprocity

    Accepted author manuscript, 399 KB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/09/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>The Journal of Fandom Studies
Issue number3
Volume4
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)251-254
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Accountability to participants is a topic of some debate within fan studies. Whilst working with people requires informed consent, it may be legally defensible to freely quote any fan work found online. Reflecting on my research experience, this article argues for a responsibility to ask permission from fan creators before sharing their work in academic and other contexts. An ethics of transparency is beneficial not only to fans, I argue, but to the development of fan studies and its continued dialogue with fandoms.