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and mark the things that really stand out. Going through a second time, she
will read about seven to ten pages at a time and edit them in depth. It takes her
about an hour or two to beta ten pages. It generally takes Mel one or two
weeks to edit and return a chapter/fic to the author. The process of beta-ing is
anything but regular: Very few authors have a regular writing schedule, and a
work in progress my take months in between installments (for example
Camy’s LOTRIPS fic, which, as she mentioned, has not continued since the
end of August). Similarly, a beta could get 3 chapters one week, nothing for
several months and then another 5 chapters at once.
5. Not typing out loud? – or the nature of lurkers
Due to the way online fandoms are organized, researchers are
generally confronted with a very big issue; people who attempt to analyze fans
and their habits very much have to rely on either open public forums or have
to become a member of mailing lists. Either way, there is a very large portion
of people fan-scholars and scholar-fans can never see online; they are
“lurkers,” fans who “lurk” online without reacting in an active electronically
tangible way to ongoing discussions or fanfics. Lurkers’ activities may
possibly be catalogued if they choose to reply to online surveys, but on a
deeper ethnographic level, they are, more often than not, overlooked. For
example, in the Jenkins theories of fandom as production, or in the various
fan-scholar and scholar-fan theories incited and influenced by Jenkins, the
question is really whether productivity is such an inherent part to being a fan.
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