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see that online interaction does not necessarily reflect on offline relationships.
It is very easy to be a lurker online, and an opinionated fan-friend offline.
While talking to Barb, we were at one point discussing her reasons for
lurking, and I realized that not only will many people have their own reasons
for lurking, but most people, in fact, do not necessarily have, nor need, a
reason. The way one lives out one’s fandom is dictated by rules and language,
cultural aspects in short, which people in this fandom share; quite similarly to
real life, it is still up to each individual to live out fandom in their own way.
Maybe it would be favorable to bring up a comparison to American academia
in this case, not as a way to contrast, but as an aid to better understand this
point: Many high-profile universities demand that the professor they hire have
published at least a certain number of books and/or articles. Academics who
publish constantly and attend conferences in their fields are high-profile and
even if such a high-profile academic published constantly critiqued papers,
she/he would still be known under their name. But how does this count in the
large number of academics not tenured at high-profile universities nor overly
active in their semi-official peer interactions? Admittedly, there is a large
difference here, driving home the point that this comparison is only a mental
aid: while academia is a profession, if somewhat prestigious and laden with
idealistic notions, it is, in a way, a job. Fandom is acted out mostly for wishfulfillment;
it is a process, in which, naturally, others may be involved, and
one can achieve prestige as a BNF. In a way, a fan will not lose her/his mode
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