The Focus on this reading is the ethnographies of fandom and the author is trying to differentiate between knowledge and justification explosion in fan studies and also explains that how these are accepted as cultural facts by ethnographers.
The key point that I have found for this answer are:
“Fan justifications are accepted as cultural facts by ethnographers rather than being subjected to further analysis.”
“Work on fandom has formed a key part of the move towards valorizing active audiences, and this use of the fan has resulted in an extremely partial and limited examination of fan practices.”
“Fan- ethnography has typically been limited by its view of the real as matter of discourse and articulation, or by its one- sided accounts of fandom either as a social coping mechanism [bacon-smith 1992] or a valuable ‘interpretive community’ [Jenkins 1992; Amesley 1989]”
“Autoethnography aims to create a partial ‘inventory’ of the ‘infinity of traces’ deposited within the self by cultural and historical processes.”
“Autoethnography also displaces the problems of assuming that the ‘real’ is always primarily discursive.”
“Autoethnography is contracted to psychoanalytic and ideological approaches, since there are viewed as approaches where theory is imposed on experience.”
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