Thread:Mak23686/@comment-4791901-20121012125846

Dear Admins,

My name is Helena Dare-Edwards, I am a PhD student at the University of East Anglia (UK), in the school of Film Television and Media studies working on a thesis about girlhood, digital culture and tween fandom. I am now in my second year of study and my supervisors are Dr Su Holmes and Dr Yvonne Tasker.

As part of my research I would be very interested in interviewing you or speaking with you in some form or another. It would be wonderful to be able to include some of your thoughts, comments, feelings or otherwise in my thesis. Of course, you have first-hand experience and knowledge about fan activity and any time you could spare to talk with me would be greatly appreciated.  So, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions:

Firstly, as a fan yourself, I presume, I am interested in your experience as an admin at this site; your observations of other fans and their participation in the wiki community

Secondly, as part of a very active fan community online I am intrigued about where you see yourself within this; whether taking on the role of admin was part of your identification as a fan of iCarly

Thirdly, having spent some time on this website I wonder whether it would be at all possible to access any archives from the website, either of fan chat, comment pages or otherwise. Please be assured that all names in my work will be fully anonymised.

Should you wish to contact me please email me at helena.de3@gmail.com

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;">Many thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;">Your sincerely,

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;">Helena <ac_metadata title="iCarly Research"> </ac_metadata>