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zines  

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  • The term zine was established in the 1980s to refer to an extremely wide range of amateur publications, usually written, edited, and published by one person. The word itself is a truncation of fanzine (itself abbreviating fan magazine). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media; Zines]

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