Negotiating meaning in the consumption of the past.

Smith, Fiona; Brown, Mary

Abstract

The Internet and social networking technologies have facilitated communication between groups of retrophiles or fans of the past. The article seeks to examine motivations for retrophilic action and to discuss these ideas within the present late capitalist culture. The article discusses how retrophiles seem to use the past in order to (re)construct their individual and collective identities and it examines two recent media representations that present retrophiles in discourses of consumption and acquisition.

Citation

SMITH, F. and BROWN, M. 2014. Negotiating meaning in the consumption of the past. Journal of fandom studies, 2(2), pages 147-161. Available from:https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.2.2.147_1

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2014
• Publication Date: Oct 31, 2014
• Deposit Date: Nov 24, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 24, 2014
• Journal: Journal of Fandom Studies
• Print ISSN: 2046-6692
• Electronic ISSN: 2046-6706
• Publisher: Intellect
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 147-161
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.2.2.147_1
• Keywords: Nostalgia; Past; Retrophiles; Online communities; Identity; Discourse
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1079