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kevin_standlee ([personal profile] kevin_standlee) wrote2007-05-30 10:53 pm
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Stand Up and Be Counted

First ganked from [livejournal.com profile] debgeisler, this is a group that is trying to count how many LJ members consider themselves part of fandom.

Mind you, I suspect that there are a lot of mutually-contradictory definitions of "fandom" out there, but what the hey. There is already a five-figure count of members.
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[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2007-05-31 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Up until today, I had fandom listed as one of my LJ interests.

But I deleted them all and substituted "freedom of speech."

[identity profile] nwl.livejournal.com 2007-06-01 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't been on LJ for a while, life intervened, so I was unaware of what was going on. What was going on?

What is their definition of "fandom"? I was surprised as to me fandom is SF fandom which is literary fandom which is an interest of science fiction and fantasy. Who is defining fandom differently?

[identity profile] kevin-standlee.livejournal.com 2007-06-02 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
How about fanfic fans? Gaming fans? "Media" SF fandom? Comics fans? Given that this brouhaha started by including a bunch of fanfic communities and people with an interest in them getting swept up in the net, I rather expected that the protests to be centered on those fanfic communities, even though some of them have but a tenuous connection to the fandom to which I belong. (But remember that I'm a comics and "media" fan, as well -- that's what I meant about "fellow travelers.")
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