Fan Fiction Oral History Project

The Fan Fiction Oral History Project (also referred to as "an Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project" and "Media Fandom Oral History Project") is an audio record of media fans telling their fandom history in their own words. 
Interviewers are Andrea Horbinski, Lisa Cronin, and Abigail De Kosnik.
Fifty-six interviews with fifty fans were conducted for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. 
Forty-one of these oral interviews are housed, and publicly available, at the University of Iowa. All of the interviews at the University of Iowa have a written transcript except one.
The interviews are located here, at the University of Iowa Libraries. You'll need to be persistent to read the transcripts (pdfs) as they can be difficult to access (or even see) depending on what browser you use. Recommended: Firefox.
==The Project's Focus==
In one of the interviews, Abigail De Kosnik said: "This project is called "Fan Fiction and 
Internet Memory" and we're looking at two basic research questions. The first is, "How do we use the Internet as a site of memory, as a kind of technology for remembering things?" and the second question we're asking is, "How do we remember the Internet?... I think that fan communities are a great exemplar of how the Internet has really become a powerful tool for memory and yet, simultaneously, also is easily forgotten, somehow. I find most people, and me included, are kind of amnesiac about the Internet also. So that's what this project's about." From Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Litotease 
In another interview, Andrea Horbinski explained: "So the project has two overarching questions: one is the Internet, and how people use it as a site for memory, and then also how people remember the Internet and Gail thought that fandom as it's sort of moved from platform to platform over time would be a really good sort of way to look at that first question. So, our other focus is on fan fiction as it has been experienced on various forms of archives on the Internet." From Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Julia Price 
==Similar Projects==
* Organization for Transformative Works/Fan Video & Multimedia, aka The Vidding History Project (2009)
* Media Fandom Oral History Project (2012-present)
* Vidding Oral History Project (dates unknown)
==History and Background==
See Confessions of an Aca-Fan Interview with Abigail DeKosnik (2016).
==The Interviews==
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Aethel (July 21, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Alexia (July 25, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin, this interview does not have a written transcription)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Alexis Lothian (July 19, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Anonymous (August 16, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Arduinna (August 2012) (August 4, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Arduinna (September 2012) (September 8, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Azurelunatic (July 3, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Bookshop (July 18, 2012 and August 6, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Cofax7 (July 17, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Constable Katie (November 1, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Deirdre (July 27, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Elfwreck (June 2, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Ellen Fremedon (July 9, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Eruthros (July 18, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Francesca Coppa (July 19 and 24, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins (August 14, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Inkstone (September 15, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Jacqueline (July 6, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Jinjurly (July 7, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Julia Price (June 13, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Julie Levin Russo (July 24, 2012 and August 1, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Karen Hellekson (July 27, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Kate (August 8, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Kristina Busse (July 30, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Litotease (June 12, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Livia Penn (August 16, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Meri Oddities (August 5, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Morgan Dawn (July 21, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Nele Noppe (August 15, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Nightflier (June 13, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Olivia Breckinridge (August 6, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Rachael Sabotini (August 20, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Rebecca Tushnet (August 22, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Robin (July 23, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Starlady (June 18, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Tari Gwaemir (July 5, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Te (August 3, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Therienne (September 9, 2012 - interviewer: Lisa Cronin)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Thingswithwings and Eruthros (July 16, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Via Ostiense (August 8, 2012 - interviewer: Andrea Horbinski)
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Vincent Judovalkis (July 23, 2012 - interviewer: Abigail De Kosnik)
==References==
Category:Interviews by Fans
Category:2012 Fan Interviews