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web. In a way the nature of conversing over Instant Messenger, namely in
concise and few sentences, added to this issue. Following up on the need for
more elaboration and detail on some of the sentiments expressed, I began to
resort to more traditional face-to-face interviews.
Once I had committed myself to strive for complexity, I began a selfethnography,
as well as attempted to heighten my awareness of a selfreflexive
stance. This was absolutely necessary, not simply because of my
decision to include myself in this project, but also because of the connections I
have to the fans I worked with, who were either long-term friends, or whom I
have formed friendships to, partially due to both our shared reality/ies, our
collaborative work and in a way due to our shared fan-mode of identity. This
self-ethnographic stance is suffused in all aspects of this text.
The decisions I made for my research were implicated throughout the
process of writing this text. As any empirical paper is nothing but a heavily
moderated compilation and abstraction of data, I aim to mirror the process of
this compilation by preserving long excerpts from online journal posts and
online essays written by fans, as well as by relying on passages of transcribed
interviews. The structure and layout of this text is then as much a reflection of
how it was researched and written (as illustrated in this section) as it is
reflective of the medium (online) and its communities (interactive). The
reflection of medium and communities will be further explored in the
following sections. .
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