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[QUOTE] From Noah Berlatsky, Great News: Now Anyone Can Write and Publish a Sherlock Holmes Story

So carving off characters can be a way to comment on the original work—to expand on its themes, to examine what it erased, to update it, to teach folks about it, or just to enjoy it (and surely enjoyment is

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transformativeworks: OTW Legal is representing fans’ right to remix before the NTIA/PTO in Washington DC on Dec 12 @ UTC1700. The panel will be live streamed: http://bit.ly/18mcj0Q

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Storify by Bertha Chin: tweets and pictures of the Fan Studies Network Symposium 2013

Storify by Bertha Chin: tweets and pictures of the Fan Studies Network Symposium 2013 Tweets from the Fan Studies Network Symposium, hosted by the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on Saturday

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Going on right now: Fan Studies Network 2013 Symposium

Going on right now: Fan Studies Network 2013 Symposium The Fan Studies Network Symposium is taking place in Norwich right now and being live-tweeted at #FSN2013. Check out the program: 09:30 – 10:20: KEYNOTE Professor Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University) (Chairs:

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transformativeworks: Buy a book and support the OTW! A new book on fanfic has OTW contributors & if you buy it through our link, the OTW will also get a donation! http://bit.ly/16MS5Hw

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[QUOTE] From Lev Grossman (via theadventuresofcargline) woah someone actually gets fanfiction (via sonicsnitchoffire)

I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One

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Your Personal Fandom Stories Are Urgently Needed!

transformativeworks: The OTW’s Legal Advocacy project has stood up for fans’ rights to create and share, helping individual fans with legal questions and making fans’ collective voices heard in court cases. Recently, our Legal Committee asked for fans to help

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[REQUEST] Academic works on uses of fanworks in education

Rebecca Tushnet is looking for academic works that talk about the uses of transformative works in education, for instance how various kinds of fanworks are used in classrooms, what skills and knowledge people learn from making/consuming fanworks, and so on. She’s

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[QUOTE] From Mel Stanfill, Fandom, public, commons

Of course, fandom has never been isolated from market values, not least because it tends to respond to capitalist-produced media. But normatively, the counterpublic hailed by fan texts was a noncommercial one. This has given rise to contentions that Kindle

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[QUOTE] From Emily Regan Willis, Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in “The X-Files”

Much of the literature on fan fiction sees slash fiction as transformative because of its imposition of a queer framework on heteronormative texts. While I do not disagree that this is one way fan fiction can be transformative, it is

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Your guide to research on fans

  • Fanhackers is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) that makes fan studies scholarship more accessible. We help fans find and access research on fan culture, and encourage fan participation in scholarship through the contribution of personal experiences, new research, and community interaction.
  • We post about fan studies research here and on Tumblr and Twitter, and maintain a bibliography of fan studies research. Contributions welcome!

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