Fan Materials from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Study of the Potential Use of Fan Materials in Archives

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Daw, Colleen
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This paper addresses a need for further collection development in the archives community. As more and more items from popular culture are archived (i.e. movies, music, television, etc.) so should the accompanying fan materials. These fan materials provide important contextual information for their source materials, as well as evidence of the rich cultural history surrounding these materials. To get an understanding of these fan communities, this paper focuses on the large and active Star Wars community. In order to explore the potential archival value of the materials produced by these communities, a qualitative content analysis was conducted of a Star Wars fan fiction, fan podcast, and fan news site. They were analyzed using a contextual entity model designed by Christopher Lee for digital objects, in order to see how the fan materials contextualized and informed on the source materials or Star Wars films. By doing this study, we hope to encourage archives to expand their collections and consider this new type of material that expands the overall cultural history.
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  • Weiss, Steven M.
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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