I did several classes on contemporary movies, mainstream cinema etc. when I was at the university (and that was *sigh* about 17 years ago).

So did I, oh, well, ten years ago :). But fandom (as in, internet fandom) never cropped up back then, although that was about the time I discovered my first fandoms online. I'd have expected it to crop up in time somewhere in an English department at least, but no luck so far... Though liriaen said above she'd come across some sociological studies in German - I'm dead curious about this (haven't looked systematically for material in quite some time, though...