Rogue Archives by Abigail De Kosnik

Author:Abigail De Kosnik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Computer equipment, from the 1980s through the present, has always required a significant financial investment and has never been affordable by all, but Jacqueline’s comments show that class-based exclusions in media fandom did not begin with Net fandom, as print fandom also erected financial barriers to participation. What print fans’ allegations of elitism covered over was a fear that the “center of gravity” (as Cynthia Jenkins put it) was shifting away from print fandom to Net fandom in these years. The tradition of fandom that had been founded in the 1960s was threatened with disappearance in the 1990s owing to the rise of new media.

In their oral history interview, Henry and Cynthia Jenkins describe the tensions that suffused print fans’ discourse during this period:

HJ:

  The original community felt they lost control as this stuff expanded. So one friction is, “These people aren’t doing fandom right. They’re doing fandom by a different set of rules. … These people are interacting online with each other all the time, despite geographic distances.” Whereas the other group got together a handful of times a year, it was really special, there was an enormous bond that grew out of going to cons together over time. And those who couldn’t be there [online] every day got more and more left out of the social interactions of the community.

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