Społeczny świat polskich fanów fantastyki
The social world of Polish speculative fiction fans

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to depict the phenomenon of speculative fiction fans within the sociological theory. The author used the interactionist perspective, especially the theory of social worlds by Anselm Strauss. The social world of fans is called fandom by them. Its primary function is to organize the participants around the subject of fanship – the broadly understood speculative fiction. Fandom “identifies” and “categorizes” the subject of fanship. A fan differs from a regular recipient in that apart from an incidental experience of a medium, they make the effort of deeper understanding to look for the contents that are interesting to them. The article presents a typological analysis of fans, and a short analysis of two important spheres of fans’ activities – conventions and the Internet.

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