A person · · Contemporary
The archivist
The person who keeps the record after the fandom has moved on: episode guides, transcripts, timelines, screencaps, a wiki nobody else will maintain.
Maintains the infrastructure the whole parasocial culture stands on and is almost never credited, because the credit goes to the object of the bond rather than to the person preserving it.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- needs-sourceFan wikis and episode-guide sites are long-running and mostly volunteer-run.Standard observation of the fan-wiki ecosystem.
INSTITUTION The fandom as institution
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The audiencea bond with · 1600 · A mechanism or tacticCharles Dickensof the same time as · 1812 · A personClerks beat algorithmsan example of · 1995 · A mechanism or tactic
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