{"407241":{"#nid":"407241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Real Vampires and Those That Research Them","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrittain Fellow \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/john-edgar-browning\u0022\u003EJohn Edgar Browning\u003C\/a\u003E, an internationally recognized vampire and horror scholar, was cited on \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/real-vampires-and-those-that-research-them\u0022\u003EExaminer.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E discussing his ethnographic research into modern-day real life vampire communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen thinking of real life vampires, most picture moody teens dressed in black clothing, copying what they\u2019ve seen on television. \u0022What real vampirism is not, however, is the sole adoption of Gothic dress and prosthetic fangs for aesthetic purposes, as though real vampirism were merely a practice or fad that one might adopt one day and discard the next,\u201d writes John Edgar Browning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrowning\u0027s paper, titled \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/articles\/palcomms20156\u0022\u003EThe Real Vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: A Research Note Towards Comparative Ethnography\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, published to Palgrave Communications in March of 2015, serves as an elaboration of his ethnographic work and seeks to raise careful discussion of the little-explored identity and phenomenon of \u201creal vampirism\u201d. His work spans five years and two cities, exploring what Browning terms \u201cdefiant culture\u201d, through which vampire self-identification is able to achieve a measure of empowerment by resisting \u201cnormalcy\u201d while critiquing and challenging the power structures that re\/produce it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/real-vampires-and-those-that-research-them\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-05-26 11:08:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:31","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"black student matriculation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/real-vampires-and-those-that-research-them","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"407231":{"id":"407231","type":"image","title":"John Edgar Browning","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"John Edgar Browning","file":{"fid":"202140","name":"john-edgar-browning.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john-edgar-browning_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john-edgar-browning_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32700,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/john-edgar-browning_0.jpg?itok=WcbJ2zL2"}}},"media_ids":["407231"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9954","name":"Brittain Fellow"},{"id":"122421","name":"Browning"},{"id":"69881","name":"ethnographic research"},{"id":"126931","name":"Examiner"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"104081","name":"press"},{"id":"11102","name":"vampires"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}