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Forum Description and Manifest:
Vast and varied paradigm of contemporary mass-culture evokes a dynamic, expressive and diverse cognitive, communicative and cultural feedback, constituting thus an integrated interactive discourse otherwise known as fandom. While the scope of practices for fannish indulgement have been functionally employed worldwide for quite a while, the subject matter of fandom as an interactive communicative medium and ambient has been heretofore marginalized by theoretical mainstream of modern humanities, social science and cultural anthropology. The objective of First Interdisciplinary Conference-Forum "Interactive Discourse of Contemporary Mass Culture: Literature, TV, Cinema” is to supply a coherent framework for key communicative and interactive aspects and parameters of fandom construction and dynamics. Thematic scope of the forum presupposes an interdisciplinary approach of the phenomenon in question in order to attain comprehensive results that would facilitate an integrated vision of the interactive communicative environment of modern mass-culture in the expanse of its forms.

Discussion topics (preliminary):
- Fandom: subject matter, cultural and social paradigm, embodiment;
- Interactive Discourse: diversity of communicative practices, strategies and genres;
- Canon vs Fanon: cognitive merge, fusion and distinction;
- Fan Fiction: definition, methods, ideology, typology, genres and styles.

Theoretic Field(s) / Paradigms: Cognitive Linguistics, Communicative Linguistics and Communication Theory, Literature Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Text Studies, Sociology, Sociolinguistics, Psychology, Philosophy of Language and Communication.