If we cannot locate aesthetic value of texts in themselves (…) yet do not want to abolish questions of value altogether, it needs to be located elsewhere. The author, pronounced dead in post-structuralism, and in any case conspicuously absent in
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Race in Fandom
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Race in Fandom Call for papers with deadline (technically) today. Collection editor Rukmini Pande says on Twitter: #RaceInFandom abstracts have been super exciting but still looking to fill some gaps! Latinx and Asian fans/fandoms
maptowhereialreadyam said: The link to Kellye Guinan’s paper is broken, FYI. Should be fixed now, thanks for pointing that out! It was Tumblr doing unfortunate things with the periods at the end of the URLs.
New fan studies research – May 29, 2017
Welcome to the second edition of our new posting format: a weekly list of new/recent fan studies research that’s just been added to the Fan Studies Bibliography. Works are divided into things that are open access (=immediately readable for anyone)
Greater competition (between dōjinshi creators in the 1980s) gradually fostered rising standards of quality, which in turn attracted more circles and buyers. Higher sales shrank production costs and boosted profits, which could then be reinvested in the dōjinshi themselves. Small
By the end of my first full day with Dorothy Evans and her customers, I had come to realize that although the Smithton women are not accustomed to thinking about what it is in the romance that gives them so
New fan studies research – May 23, 2017
We’re trying out a new kind of post: a weekly list of new/recent fan studies research that’s just been added to the Fan Studies Bibliography. Works are divided into things that are open access (=immediately readable for anyone) and not
I’m not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there any work on copyright disclaimers being used/not used by fan artists instead of fanficcers? Please and thank you!
Does anyone know of this kind of research? We’re aware of quite a few articles that discuss disclaimers on fics at least briefly, but nothing specifically about disclaimers on fan art.
Justice Scalia’s uncredited borrowing from a party’s legal brief escapes condemnation because the social context of his copying makes him a jurist, not a plagiarist. Similarly, fan creations, even without disclaimers, usually announce their unauthorized status so clearly through context
“Vidding” documentaries (2008)
“Vidding” documentaries (2008) Vidding (2008) is a series of six short documentaries produced by the Organization for Transformative Works for inclusion in the Learning Library of MIT’s New Media Literacies project. These films are part of a larger group of