Transnationalism, Localization, and Translation in European Fandom

Guest Edited Issue Table of Contents Editorial: "Fan studies as global media and audience studies," by Anne Kustritz Praxis "Antifan activism as a response to MTV's The Valleys," by Bethan Jones "Springsteen fans, #bruceleeds, and the tweeting of locality," by Bill Wolff "Representation of American versus non-American fans in Baillie Walsh's Springsteen & I," by Maryn Claire Wilkinson "Cultural differences: Polish fandom of Welcome to Night Vale," by Agata Włodarczyk, Marta Tyminska "Online Italian fandoms of American TV shows," by Eleonora Benecchi "The creation of football slash fan fiction," by Abby Waysdorf Pedagogy "Fandom: The classroom of the future," by Paul J. Booth "Watching Dallas again 1: Doing retro audience research," by Amanda Gilroy "Watching Dallas again 2: Locating viewing pleasures—An audience study of the new Dallas," by Raquel L. Raj, Mabel Wale, Joscha-Nicolai Spoellmink, Arelis Dania, Amanda Gilroy "Watching Dallas again 3: Reassessing Ien Ang's Watching Dallas," by Toon Heesakkers, Ward van Hoof, Anne Jager, Amanda Gilroy Symposium "A brief history of fan fiction in Germany," by Vera Cuntz-Leng, Jacqueline Meintzinger "A connected country: Sweden—Fertile ground for digital fandoms," by Christina Olin-Scheller, Pia Sundqvist "Finding Poland: Negotiating the local and the global and the semiperipheral identity of Polish SF&F fandom," by Joanna Kucharska, Piotr Sterczewski, Bartłomiej Schweiger, Joanna Płaszewska, Justyna Janik "Case study of French and Spanish fan reception of Game of Thrones," by Mélanie Bourdaa, Javier Lozano Delmar "Slash fandom, sociability, and sexual politics in Putin's Russia," by Sudha Rajagopalan Review: "Online games, social narratives, by Esther MacCallum-Stewart," by Nicolle Lamerichs