From the Ether

This community will contain a collection of field notes from conventions, book reviews and discussion related to fanthropology, fan culture and the anthropology of popular culture. At first the content will likely be heavily centered around my dissertation research on conventions and fan culture, though I envision that the community may open up to other posters and their interest in the (farther away) future and may include other bits of research depending on what I'm researching at the time. Other topics that may come up include video game studies and theories, digital ethnography, social web media, fan fiction, anthropology and the media, comic books, anime, japanese culture, anthropology of religion, paganism... the list goes on.