Abstract
To date, there have been very few studies on fandom and fan audiences that have focused on practice of fans’ list-making. This article, which introduces this topic for analysis, first argues that fans’ list-making presents fans with an opportunity to simultaneously memorialize, influence, and argue. Second, this article offers list-making as a tool for observing commonalities between the different practices of media, music, and sports fans. Finally,this article cautions against the universality of these list-making practices, illustrating how list-making shows the artificiality of the event in fan activities. Using a combinationof Žižekian and Couldryian analyses, this article argues that fans’ list-making becomes a new way of reading fandom reductively, and highlights the media ritual of fandom.
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