Overview: A novel way of analyzing fan thinking and creation, focusing on embodied, emotional, and communal cognitive systems.An examination of cognitive science principles through fandom offering a new understThis book argues that fans’ creative works form a cognitive system; fanfic, fanvids, and gifs are not simply evidence of thinking, but acts of thinking. Drawing on work in cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive philosophy, and psychology—particularly focused on 4-E cognition, which rejects Cartesian dualism–this project demonstrates that cognition is an embodied, emotional, and d
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