Where can i read about fandom history?
… around? Just sort of picked up from places. I’m by no means an expert – and probably got some stuff wrong – just very absorbent.
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page is reallyreallyreally great and fun, though, and has a lot of essays and all that, and links to other things and stuff because they’re NERDS.
(Including the one that I commented on, with a selection of the comments on it: http://fanlore.org/wiki/A_brief_history_of_fandom,_for_the_teenagers_on_here_who_somehow_think_tumblr_invented_fandom )
Basically that, really – disorganized digging, when you find something interesting find some good keywords and start searching for it. There’s a lot of great meta on Fanlore – one great one is this “How 50 Shades of Grey Happened”: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey:_The_Reddit_Origins_Essay
I’m sorry, I’m bad at this
there is a Meta Category on Fanlore that I like to browse.