Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.com
Autostraddle.com is the most popular independently owned Web site for queer women and a central, organizing force in queer female cyberspace. It also grew out of The L Word fandom, though its appearance now occludes the history of fan recapping that laid its groundwork. In this article, I reconnect...
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| description | Autostraddle.com is the most popular independently owned Web site for queer women and a central, organizing force in queer female cyberspace. It also grew out of The L Word fandom, though its appearance now occludes the history of fan recapping that laid its groundwork. In this article, I reconnect Autostraddle to The L Word fandom, tracing the gradual accumulation of online fan activity into a stable Web site and queer female social space. In doing so, I revise dominant conceptions of fan productivity as individual-centered and temporally bound, arguing for a more expansive consideration of the large-scale creations fans can build over time. My intervention is twofold: a plea for history where the Web can seem to be an eternally present medium, and an assertion of fandom's inseparability from the larger landscape of queer female life online. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a4428dd00d7408f906cf1ee7d90f87d2022-12-21T22:01:01ZengOrganization for Transformative WorksTransformative Works and Cultures1941-22581941-22582017-06-012410.3983/twc.2017.0846Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.comKelsey Cameron0University of PittsburghAutostraddle.com is the most popular independently owned Web site for queer women and a central, organizing force in queer female cyberspace. It also grew out of The L Word fandom, though its appearance now occludes the history of fan recapping that laid its groundwork. In this article, I reconnect Autostraddle to The L Word fandom, tracing the gradual accumulation of online fan activity into a stable Web site and queer female social space. In doing so, I revise dominant conceptions of fan productivity as individual-centered and temporally bound, arguing for a more expansive consideration of the large-scale creations fans can build over time. My intervention is twofold: a plea for history where the Web can seem to be an eternally present medium, and an assertion of fandom's inseparability from the larger landscape of queer female life online.https://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0846BlogFan communityFan productivityQueer womenRecap cultureWeb history |
| spellingShingle | Kelsey Cameron Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.com Transformative Works and Cultures Blog Fan community Fan productivity Queer women Recap culture Web history |
| title | Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.com |
| title_full | Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.com |
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| title_short | Constructing queer female cyberspace: "The L Word" fandom and Autostraddle.com |
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