Teaching, Learning, Doing Research at Comic Con and Festivals
The panelists were Benjamin Woo, PhD, Felan Parke, PhD, Easé Sanders, and Jae Kim. Benjamin talked about a research project regarding attending conventions, doing TCA, F, and San Diego Comic Con. Felan discussed how San Diego was so big that 1 person going would only be able to experience so much, so they got a large number of students to participate, getting a variety of experiences in different areas. Easé and Jae were 2 of the students who went, and they discussed how they both had to attend the con as fans, but also keep their research part in mind while they were there. They spoke about their other specialties (psychology and marginalized culture), and they also played into what they experienced. They talked about everybody having access to a discord server where they made notes and traded experiences as they were doing the con, the seeking and getting exclusive limited merchandise and how that impacted them both at the time and after the convention, getting swept up in the competitive commercialism, doing classroom research vs experience research, creating Comic Con Comics #1, how archives play into this research and the differences between TCAF and SDCC.
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