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[NEWS] Stepping Stones – OTW membership drive
Our Milestone Month was amazing but to keep our projects going we need your support. Help us spread the word about our April membership drive! العربية • Bahasa Indonesia • Deutsch • español • français...
View Article[QUOTE] From Bethan Jones, Fifty Shades of fan labor: Exploitation and Fifty...
Fifty Shades complicates the concept of prosumption, however, as (E.L.) James “built a following within a community founded in part on the explicit rejection of monetary gain in favor of fannish love,...
View Article[LINK] April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Transformative Works and Cultures
The OTW blog shines a spotlight on the academic fan studies journal TWC. Excerpt: What gets you excited about academic studies in fandom? “Here’s what I’m excited about,” said Karen Hellekson in 2008:...
View Article[QUOTE] From Tisha Turk, Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in...
Generally speaking, media fandom operates on a labor theory of value—not necessarily in the Marxist sense of the phrase, but in the sense that value derives from work. Fandom’s gift economy assigns...
View Article[META] Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom
[P]arafanfiction…refers to a particular subset of parafictional art that claims to be fanfiction of, or some other record of, an external media object that does not actually exist. The most notable...
View Article[REQUEST] Slashfic readers from pre-2008 needed!
Hello all! I’m requesting information on the (in)visibility of slash as a way of generating angst in fanfic pre-2008. Specifically, I want to know what causes or prevents the queering of canoncially...
View Article[REQUEST] Anyone have tips about a fan studies-friendly graduate program?
Hi there! I was wondering if you could direct me to any information you might have about graduate programs in which one could formally pursue fan studies (especially a PhD track). I’ve looked around at...
View Article[QUOTE] From Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the...
As one reflects upon the history of culture in the twentieth century, at least within what we call the “developed world,” it’s hard not to conclude that Sousa was right (to fear in 1906 that creation...
View Article[QUOTE] From Drew Emanuel Berkowitz, Framing the Future of Fanfiction: How...
Many (New York Times articles about fan fiction) described fanfiction authors as dedicated (Nussbaum 2003), but the specific language used to frame their “zealous” (Stelter 2008, 5) or “marginal...
View Article[QUOTE] From Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, Editorial: Fandom and/as labor
For example, the video game industry has long been working to blur the line between labor and play in their own ranks by recruiting fans as beta testers for games that are about to be released....
View Article[QUOTE] From “Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the...
If female fans are dismissed more easily, then so are their interests, their spaces, and their primary forms of engagement. Or, said differently, gender discrimination occurs on the level of the fan,...
View Article[META] The censorship problems faced by anime and manga fans
For fans of manga, anime, and other Japanese media, pointing and laughing at inaccurate mass media portrayals of Japanese pop culture has been something of a sport for decades. A few weeks ago,...
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Announcing the Fandom Then/Now Webproject
For many people, fan fiction is as much a part of their reading as commercial literature. Fan fiction websites and archives provide readers with novels, serials, novellas, romantic and erotic stories,...
View Article[REQUEST] Journal of Fandom Studies
Hi! I would like the following articles for a research project, if anyone can share them: Booth, Paul. Augmenting fan/academic dialogue: New directions in fan research. Journal of Fandom Studies. Vol...
View Article[QUOTE] From Nicolle Lamerichs, Fan Studies Network Conference 2014
Fandom need(s) to be seen in a more diverse and flexible way. Participatory fandom is not the norm. For many fans, it can just be an individual experience of rewatching a show or enjoying something....
View Article[QUOTE] From Posted on September 02, 2014 by Rebecca Tushnet,...
Neal Pollack’s article defending Amazon has many points of interest. The only one I’ll engage with is that, contrary to the marketing, Amazon is still seeding Kindle Worlds with pro authors under...
View Article[QUOTE] From Drew Emanuel Berkowitz, Framing the Future of Fanfiction: How...
The New York Times generally presented fanfiction as a financial opportunity for the corporations that own the intellectual properties copied by fanfiction. Many articles asserted that franchises...
View ArticleOn-line Attire Procuring Tips To Purchase Celebration Gown
On-line Attire Procuring Tips To Purchase Celebration Gown Prom dresses own completely different colors, fabric as well as. As for fashion, there are a number of neckline, fleshlight sleeves, and skirt...
View ArticleCall For Collaboration-Textual Analysis of Supernatural
Posted on request from Liorah Golomb: I am looking for a collaborator with computational linguistic skills for a project mining the dialogue of the U.S. television program Supernatural (CW Network,...
View Article[QUOTE] From Mel Stanfill – Fandom, public, commons
As fans create, then, they not only create for a public but also create a public; that is, in producing for such a community, they call one into existence. (…) Fan creative production like fiction and...
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