Observation; Comment?
Jan. 10th, 2011 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriSkimming some stuff related to writing my paper for PCA. Came across the following from a 1992 essay by Constance Penley, discussing TOS slash:
I already knew then... that this was an almost all-female fandom, and had also been able to get an idea of the extent of the production and the number of fans involved: there are probably not more than 500 active, core fans, although they publish a tremendous amount, which is disseminated beyond the core group through mail order and convention sales of th zines...
Compare this figure with something like, say![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
jim_and_bones which publicly has over a thousand members, of which (according to the published mod polls) some hundred or so actively participate.
Just think that's interesting, is all.
I already knew then... that this was an almost all-female fandom, and had also been able to get an idea of the extent of the production and the number of fans involved: there are probably not more than 500 active, core fans, although they publish a tremendous amount, which is disseminated beyond the core group through mail order and convention sales of th zines...
Compare this figure with something like, say
jim_and_bones which publicly has over a thousand members, of which (according to the published mod polls) some hundred or so actively participate.Just think that's interesting, is all.
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Date: 2011-01-14 12:53 pm (UTC)Radio National (Australia) segment "The Book Show" - "Women Can't Write About Sex" broadcast 28 July 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2010/2787456.htm
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Date: 2011-01-15 07:53 pm (UTC)