While posting my most recent Minamicon video I realised that I hadn't posted the paper I presented at the FSN conference last year! In part this was because the sound level was so low I didn't want to post it without having some decent subtitles on it, but also just because I had a very busy end to the year with the eventual completion and submission of my thesis plus a job change, and it just slipped between the cracks unfortunately!
FSN2019 was held at the University of Portsmouth in June 2019. I took part in a panel about fandom archiving and my paper was about the motivations for and process of setting up a fandom archive, including the questions that arise in the process and about one's competing responsibilities as both an academic and a fan.
The next talk I delivered relating to my research was at the Fan Studies Network Conference, held at the University of Huddersfield in June 2017. It consisted of an expanded analysis of the demographic data I got from my questionnaire, revisited Azuma's generations of otaku, and revised the proposals about anime fandom generations in the UK I made back in 2012.
No-one had any questions to ask at the Q&A panel afterwards but I did have some very interesting talks with other academics in attendance afterwards, which was fantastic!
Finally up! The video is low quality because Youtube was unable to process the high-quality version for some reason. I may see if I can reupload it at a later date if the audio/video quality is problematic.
This is my paper as presented at the Manga Movies Project symposium, held at UEA in September 2012.
Between the discussion among anime fans at my Amecon panel, and that among my fellow academics who attended the symposium and spoke to me afterwards, I am aware that I have some expanding and exploration to do within this topic - expect that in a future blog post!
