zine

Definition

A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

Etymology

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

Example Sentences

• "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two."
• "The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances."
• "I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories."