Acafandom
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The community or sphere of acafans. countable, slang, uncountable
"Rather than scholars being free to choose to act as differential interpretive communities with divergent norms and discursive practices (Brooker 2011), meaning that the identities cannot be united without losing sight of these contexts (or, indeed, losing sight of the precise micro-context within which such a union may seem more possible, e.g. TV Studies or fan studies where acafandom has arguably been normalised for a generation of researchers)."
Example
More examples"Rather than scholars being free to choose to act as differential interpretive communities with divergent norms and discursive practices (Brooker 2011), meaning that the identities cannot be united without losing sight of these contexts (or, indeed, losing sight of the precise micro-context within which such a union may seem more possible, e.g. TV Studies or fan studies where acafandom has arguably been normalised for a generation of researchers)."
Etymology
Blend of academic + fandom.
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