Fan writers stand in relationship to the constructedness of star
identities. As a form of writing, zines allow writers to express
the social construction of their identities as they see them
reflected in media stars. At
loggerheads, academic writing maintains a
radically different agenda. Academic
writing strives to suppress multiple selves in favor of
soliciting the unified human subject. Ergo,
the subject
of academic writing is radically different from the subject of
zine writing.