We are using the word "text" in the academic sense--anything that can be "read" or interpreted. So movies, books, paintings, anything televised or recorded are "texts" in this sense. There has always been some back and forth about whether RPF fit even this loose definition.
Yes, I understood "text" in the academic sense. My concern was really whether RPF fits that definition. I suppose some does and some doesn't, but that might not be too helpful.
There is a Category:Harry Potter. The page "Harry Potter", along with pages like The Draco Trilogy and FictionAlley, gets this category and doesn't need the category "Fandoms by Source Text".
Ah, OK. But you would still find Harry Potter if you were looking in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, right, because there would be the "Harry Potter" category in there?
Media Fandom is an eclectic assortment of individual fan communities that share certain values, practices, and vocabulary. It is my understanding that some books, like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, are counted as part of media fandom. I guess it depends on who you ask?
So would Fanlore differentiate this, then, and put some book fandoms into the Media Fandom category and others not? Where would the other book fandoms fit in "Fandom by Source Community" terms?
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Yes, I understood "text" in the academic sense. My concern was really whether RPF fits that definition. I suppose some does and some doesn't, but that might not be too helpful.
There is a Category:Harry Potter. The page "Harry Potter", along with pages like The Draco Trilogy and FictionAlley, gets this category and doesn't need the category "Fandoms by Source Text".
Ah, OK. But you would still find Harry Potter if you were looking in the "Fandoms by Source Text" category, right, because there would be the "Harry Potter" category in there?
Media Fandom is an eclectic assortment of individual fan communities that share certain values, practices, and vocabulary. It is my understanding that some books, like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, are counted as part of media fandom. I guess it depends on who you ask?
So would Fanlore differentiate this, then, and put some book fandoms into the Media Fandom category and others not? Where would the other book fandoms fit in "Fandom by Source Community" terms?