Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

The problem with this sentiment, for me, was founded in my recollection of
reading “Normal Female Interest” and finding the lack of an authorial position
disorienting. The abundance of fan statements contained in the text is only
loosely connected together, and rarely understandable in their organizational
structure. Each opinion and fan’s voice was interesting in and of itself, but as
a complex whole left me hanging.
The second instance that caused me to reconsider some attempt at
interactivity was the increasing feedback I received from friends, and the wish
to display their input. Realizing that this text could only benefit from some
degree of experimental exercise, and resolved to attempt interactivity, but at
the same time not lose my theoretical and textual framework, I decided to
create certain interactive spaces. Circulating my manuscript, I asked each fan
who was willing to “react” to pick a section, if it spoke to them, and to “write
me back.” Though some of my friends had problems with this, asking me for
more guidelines or explanation, in the end everyone who wished to chose a
section and reacted. These paragraphs are contained within the “interactive”
boxes throughout this text, as a reminder that the fans described throughout
this ethnography possess voices of their own, beyond mine, as well as a
reflection of the interactivity latent in both the online medium as well as its
fan communities.
This text is then readable as both a trajectory, inasmuch as each
section builds on the one preceding it, as well as a networked, or perhaps
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