A pragmatics of things: Materiality and constraint in fan practices

Although, as qualitative consumer research and material culture studies have demonstrated, objects can be rich sources of meaning and stability, they also entail basic limitations on human action. Interviews conducted as part of a study of one city's nerd-culture scene permitted analysis of the...

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Main Author: Benjamin Woo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2014-06-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0495