Rachel here chiming in on behalf of the wiki commitee: yes, we do hope/plan to make another post for more conversation and clarification of category restructuring, but we're not quite ready yet. Thanks for your patience.
Re: media fandom -- media fandom is the corner of fandom with which I identify, and I think of it as a category which began in differentiation from science fiction fandom -- there was SF (science fiction) fandom, which centered around SF books, and then there was media fandom, which centered around television shows like Star Trek, Starsky & Hutch, Professionals, etc. I think many early media fans were SF fans, but at that point in time, the creation of fanworks like fanfiction and fanvids was frowned-on in mainstream SF fandom, whereas creating fic and vids became fairly central to mainstream media fandom.
I think the term has since broadened, colloquially, to include a variety of television and movie fandoms; there are also book fans who I think self-define as part of media fandom, maybe because they are also part of communities around tv and movie sources, or maybe because of a general commonality of fannish culture.
That said -- that's one media fan's personal and fairly idiosyncratic definition; other media fans might describe media fandom differently. (Anyone want to weigh in?)
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Re: media fandom -- media fandom is the corner of fandom with which I identify, and I think of it as a category which began in differentiation from science fiction fandom -- there was SF (science fiction) fandom, which centered around SF books, and then there was media fandom, which centered around television shows like Star Trek, Starsky & Hutch, Professionals, etc. I think many early media fans were SF fans, but at that point in time, the creation of fanworks like fanfiction and fanvids was frowned-on in mainstream SF fandom, whereas creating fic and vids became fairly central to mainstream media fandom.
I think the term has since broadened, colloquially, to include a variety of television and movie fandoms; there are also book fans who I think self-define as part of media fandom, maybe because they are also part of communities around tv and movie sources, or maybe because of a general commonality of fannish culture.
That said -- that's one media fan's personal and fairly idiosyncratic definition; other media fans might describe media fandom differently. (Anyone want to weigh in?)