making up fannish stuff, for posterity and beyond!

[sab]

All you all should be coming over to help edit fanlore.org. It's very easy to log in, and then those of us who toil over there would love some toiling help. For example, there's hardly any info on the "West Wing" page; come fill it up, and bring your favorite fics!

Also, for semantics purposes; help me with these questions below? Answer with the term you would most frequently use, or answer with the term you have most frequently heard if you don't prefer one answer over the other.

[Poll #1296784]

ETA: Comments! Keep 'em coming!

Love,
Sab

Comments

[starwatcher]

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For me, a 'medium' is one thing. Since it's so hard to separate vid and audio (who wants a vid without music?), I think I'd separate the media into print, electronic, and art.

Fandom is the ideas and characters of a particular show (TV, movie, book and/or similar source, IE bandom.)

So, it doesn't matter how many fandom characters meet in a fanfic. It's multi-fandom, but not multi-media, because I'm reading printed words on the screen.

Fandom as a whole is multi-media, because fans celebrate it with fic, vids, and art. But for individual pieces, I think only podfic (story + audio) or illustrated fanfic can be considered 'multi' media*.

* There may be other types of multi media that I don't know about -- in which case I'd appreciate hearing about them -- but I think the principle holds; you need two different types (or more) of sources combined to be considered multi media.
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