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Imagined Memories and Material Connections: The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter™ as a Home for a Fanbase in Transition
No full textI examine the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter™ (TMoHP) as a hybrid cultural arena where fandom, heritage practices and commercial logics are interwoven in a staged environment. Grounded in a museological perspective and sensory autoethnographic fieldwork across six visits between 2016 and 2024, I explore how the site’s design blends material authenticity with embodied and affective “registers of engagement” (Smith 2021) to reveal processes of emotional and imaginative heritage (cf. Smith 2021; Reijnders 2020). Staged highlights and more quiet sensory details alike contribute to an “affective infrastructure” by shaping movement, memory-work, and a felt sense of returning to a familiar place. The analysis investigates these different layers and comprises three sections.
The first examines how scenography, spatial rhythm, and institutional choices produce shifting experiences of authenticity within a commercial context. The second turns to Heimat (cf. Sandvoss 2005), imagined memories (cf. Duffett 2013), and punctum (cf. Barthes 1981) to illuminate how recognition and affect surface in more unexpected ways as visitors navigate the attraction. The final section traces how upscaling, increased digital mediation and new visitor demographics alter the atmosphere and place pressure on fan modes of intimacy and participation.
By examining intersections between fandom and heritage tourism, I argue that TMoHP’s ongoing negotiation of affect, materiality, and belonging reflects broader changes in contemporary culture. The longitudinal perspective also allows me to reflect on the tensions around cultural sustainability of branded experience sites, and how researchers can document research as “snapshots” in a franchise environment that both welcomes its visitors and yet remains closed
Book Review: Thomas Baudinette: Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Culture
No full textStudio Ghibli Films Have Plot Holes? Vernacular, Connoisseurial Anime Reviews on YouTube as Database Consumption
No full textThis paper explores how a specific type of vernacular and connoisseurial fan review of anime operates within the anime fan community on YouTube. On the platform, we see an overly detail- and logic-obsessed as well as sarcastic style of review that can be conceived as belonging to what Hiroki Azuma (2009) terms ‘database consumption.’ The latter represents a way of engaging with and perceiving a media artefact that compares it with a normative and metaphorical database, based on tropes, plot holes, and clichés, on which the quality of a reviewed anime is evaluated. Additionally, through the use of ‘crack videos’ that employ viral clips and memes, these reviews also lead to a form of fan engagement with the channel that emphasizes a datafied formation of fan knowledge and connoisseurship in the community around AniTube. By focusing on seven reviews of Studio Ghibli films from the channel Anime Sins, this article first explores how verisimilitude is seen as a norm in the community and how this norm fits database consumption. In a second part, it establishes how elements signaling connoisseurship are contributing to the affective engagement of the channel’s audience. The last part then shows the limits of database consumption: one possible reason why Studio Ghibli films do not appear to fit the mode of database consumption is because fans tend to be focused more on grand narratives, opposing this mode of reception
Book Review: Greg Carter: I’d Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee: Uncovering Racialized Desire in the Star Wars Galaxy
No full textBook Review: Áine Madden: Expanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive
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Overviews of Digital Collaboration Tools and Data Storage Options
No full textThe tool landscape at universities and research institutions is ever changing. As a result, researchers and students often struggle to keep track of the tools offered. Especially as a new university member or PhD student, finding the right tool is time-consuming and complex. The templates for overviews of collaboration tools and storage options described in this work provide an easy comparison of tools while also giving a short introduction to the different tool types. The templates are licensed under CC BY and can be adapted to the offers of other universities and research institutions
On cooperation in informal L2 conversations-for-learning: Functions of code-switching in language tandems and peer interactions
No full textDer vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich Code-Switching im DaFZ-Erwerb in conversations-for-learning (Kasper & Kim 2015) bzw. in informellen L2-Lernsettings – konkret in Sprachtandems zwischen L1- und L2-Sprechenden sowie in L2-Alltagsinteraktionen zwischen DaFZ-Lernenden (teilweise mit L1-Sprechenden). Wir zeigen, dass Code-Switching in unseren Daten zur Ausführung von vier Funktionen eingesetzt wird: (1) Einholung sprachbezogener Hilfestellung bei Wortsuchen, (2) Rückversicherung, (3) Verständnissicherung bzw. Worterklärungen und (4) didaktisch-kontrastive Erklärungen durch Analogiebildung zwischen dem Deutschen und einer weiteren Sprache. Abschließend diskutieren wir, inwiefern Code-Switching als kooperative Praktik gelten kann und wie der Wechsel in andere Sprachen Gelegenheiten zum Sprachenlernen schaffen kann; zudem skizzieren wir mögliche Fragestellungen für die zukünftige Forschung.This study focuses on the use of code-switching in the acquisition of German as a foreign and second language (GFSL) in conversations-for-learning (Kasper & Kim 2015), specifically, in language tandems between L1 and L2 speakers, as well as in everyday L2 peer interactions among GFSL learners (sometimes involving L1 speakers). Our data show that code-switching is used to perform four major functions: (1) soliciting language-related assistance during word searches, (2) confirmation checks, (3) ensuring shared understanding and providing an explanation, and (4) providing didactic, contrastive explanations through analogy between German and another language. We conclude by discussing to what extent code-switching can be considered a cooperative practice, how switching to other languages can create opportunities for language learning, and outline possible questions for future research
Review of Simone Amorocho (2024): Oral Examinations in Nursing Education: A Conversation-Analytic Study of Linguistic and Interactional Demands
No full textRezension von Amorocho, Simone (2024): Mündliche Prüfungen in der Pflegeausbildung. Eine gesprächsanalytische Studie zu sprachlichen und interaktionalen Anforderungen. Studien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (Band 19). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.Review of Amorocho, Simone (2024): Mündliche Prüfungen in der Pflegeausbildung. Eine gesprächsanalytische Studie zu sprachlichen und interaktionalen Anforderungen. Studien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (Volume 19). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag