The purpose of this journal is to gather anecdotal evidence from online fans about the nature of online fandom. It is an accompaniment to this survey, although it is not necessary to have taken the survey to participate here. As with the survey information gathered here will be used in my senior thesis.

Questions asked here may be of a personal nature. You do not have to be a member of LiveJournal in order to answer. If you are a member and you want to remain anonymous, you can log out before responding and your identity will not be recorded.

I'll be posting questions here as they occur to me. If you wish to add fandom_studies to your friends list in order to keep track of it, click here.

Be as thorough as you like, and please be honest. Discussion with other posters is welcome and encouraged, so long as it remains friendly. I will probably not participate in discussion, as I don't want to influence any responses. So much thanks in advance for your participation.