| Update on MA thesis on HP fan fiction |
[May. 9th, 2009|03:55 pm] |
Hi!
With this message, I would like to thank all of you who answered my questionnaire at http://fanfiction.frontexperts.com (see the original message below) and have given me helpful feedback. Many of you who sent me emails with comments let me know that my questionnaire did not fully embrace your experience with fan fiction. Because a survey is a highly standardized research instrument, there was no way of avoiding this problem but I decided to broaden my research design according to the concerns conveyed to me. Thus, I would like to conduct a group discussion with fan fiction authors where they will have the opportunity to freely talk about their experience without being bound by narrow questions like in the survey.
Therefore, I am looking for Harry Potter fan fiction authors who will attend the LeakyCon 2009 from May 21st-24th in Boston and who would be willing to get together for an hour or two as a group to discuss their experience with me and the other fan fiction authors. As far as I can tell from the LeakyCon schedule, Saturday morning would probably work best to meet for the discussion. Also, it would give us a chance to get to know each other on Thursday or Friday. I will provide a space at the hotel where we will be undisturbed and make sure we have drinks and snacks. A group of 8-12 people would work best but if there are too few people for a group discussion, I would be happy to meet with any of you informally at LeakyCon to talk about your experience as a fan fiction author.
By participating in a group discussion, you would make an immense contribution to the quality and accuracy of my research. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and hearing about your life in Harry Potter fan fiction. If you want to participate please let me know until May 19th by replying to this message or at fanfictions@ gmx.net or petra.baumann@edu.uni-graz.at.
Thank you so much for your repeated help!
Best,
Petra
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| Discussion |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|07:24 pm] |
Hi there,
Recently I have embarked on a massive study of fan-fiction and specifically the hurt/comfort genre as part of my Personal Interest Project (PIP) for the Society & Culture course. In order to validate my theories I need fan-fiction writers and readers to contribute to an internet focus group.
If I seem bold in this request then I would like to mention that this is not a request, it is an offer for you to participate in what I believe will be a very interesting discussion focused on the hurt/comfort genre. I have great respect for your opinions and ideas. Mostly I look forward to the quality of the sort of discussion which I have previously observed you taking part in. In many ways these discussions are far more dynamic and valuable to a researcher than statistics or content analysis. Please consider taking part as either a registered member or an anonymous guest.
Here is the link: http://hcdiscussion.proboards.com/index.cgi
Feel free to have a look and read the further information which I have provided there.
Thank you for reading!
ps. I apologize for my shameless self-promotion at your expense, but this is the only way that I can expose my focus group and the success of my investigation -- and consequently, my marks -- depends on it. Thank you for your tolerance and I promise you won't hear from me again. |
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| Harry Potter Fan Fiction - Help with MA thesis! |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|12:56 am] |
Hello!
I hope it's OK that I'm posting this message here. I do not have any financial interest whatsoever, this message regards academic research only!
My name is Petra Baumann and I’m doing research for my master’s thesis in sociology on Harry Potter fan fiction at the University of Graz, Austria. As a sociologist, I am especially interested in the social background of fan fiction authors: where they come from, how old they are, etc. Through my research I found that, many studies on fan fiction are done in the fields of literary studies, women studies, or cultural studies but there are very little sociological data available, especially on the Harry Potter fan fiction community.
In order to gather sociological data on Harry Potter fan fiction authors, I developed a short online questionnaire. If you are an author of Harry Potter fan fiction you would immensely help me with my research if you could answer this questionnaire at
http://fanfiction.frontexperts.com
The questions will take about 10 minutes to answer and there will be no spam or advertising when you click the link. The evaluation is done anonymously and the data will be used solely for academic research. If you have any questions regarding the questionnaire or my research please feel free to contact me at fanfictions@gmx.net or visit my LifeJournal.
Thank you!
Best,
Petra
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 22nd, 2006|08:20 am] |
Greetings,
If you see the irony inwrite/draw/read Tamagotchi Fan Fiction and/or Slash, then please check out this new community: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) tamagotchislash |
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| Yes, We Are Still Alive |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|04:36 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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So, I thought I'd give this community one more shot at life. I'll post challenges on Sunday afternoons and you have one week to answer them (so due by say 6:00 p.m. cst on the following Sunday). Any fandoms, any ratings, any genres. Please cut tag and put all applicable warnings and ratings before the cut.
I'll be providing both a word option and a picture option for inspiration.
Because 1000 words can be a bit daunting, anything upwards of 500 is acceptable.
So, challenge #1 of the reboot is:
Winds of change
or
( Picture Inspiration ) |
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| Quick Query |
[Oct. 23rd, 2006|05:45 pm] |
*wanting to jump right in* Dear Moderators,
Just to get this straight:
I may only post challenge-related fic?
Thanks in advance,
Gerda |
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| A new idea of community |
[Jan. 15th, 2006|11:26 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
Hi guys !!
I would like to create on LiveJournal.com a new community for all the Sara Sidle Stories, there will be stories with Sara/Warrick of course, but also all the men of CSI Grissom, Nick, Greg...and also some good cross-over from TV-show or movies ( example : Sara/Sark, Sara/Vaughnn from Alias Sara/Charles Xavier, Sara/Wolverine, Sara/Cyclope X-Men...) a lot of possibility.
So my question is :
Do you think my idea is good ? Will you join that community ?
PS : You need only to create an account on LiveJournal.com and then join the community?
I need a lot of " YES " to create that community cause it needs time to update it !!
Megara1 |
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| Challenge: beginning and end |
[Oct. 16th, 2005|12:36 am] |
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Title: Untitled
Rating: PG
Pairings: Simon/Kaylee, Simon/Mal
Summary: Post-Serenity. Simon has relationship issues.
Author's Note: Written for multifandom1000. Also, my first attempt at Firefly fanfiction.
Warning: CONTAINS A MAJOR SPOILER.
For ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) shored, who saw the Mal/Simon subtext.
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| Deregeneration ("beginning and end") |
[Sep. 2nd, 2005|12:41 am] |
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Hello, community. New guy here, trying some new-to-me challenge communities.
Title: Deregeneration
Challenge: "beginning and end"
Based on: Doctor Who
Type: Humor; 200 words.
Rating: General.
Written for an unspecified future Doctor, or, if you like, an alternate universe Doctor.
Doctor Who © BBC.
( Deregeneration ) |
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