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public situations (such as squealing in a movie theater, or holding forth for
lengthy time perionds on a fandom-specific topic) people may roll their eyes,
but if it is known that these persons are fans the reactions are limited in
extremity. Because fans are expected to react against certain social standards,
and because they are marginalized as “fans,” they are also given the freedom
and an excuse to act in these ways. Similarly slash fans – if “out of the closet”
and known as such – are allowed to talk about sexuality, gender and
homosexual topics in ways that are unusual, and rare for people not of the
fandom.
This is only one illumination of the interactions between social
paradigms and boundary cultures, a topic which has been discussed by fans
online many times, but is only brushed on in this text. When fan-mode
interferes with other modes of identity or with the cultural environments in the
narratives further on, further glimpses of these interactions can be derived.
The aspect taken from this example is simply that the formation of a mode of
identity, though internalized, is not unaffected by external factors. This mode
will often be transformed, and sometimes amplified, by these external factors.
D. How-to guide for this text
1. How-to-write or the required methodology section
As I approached this project in small steps, one of the issues I was
faced with was what kind of ethnography and/or narrative I would be dealing
with. This was a key issue, complicated even more by my complete awareness
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