Porn parodies occupy an interesting space in the United States regarding copyright. While fandom is overtly familiar with the careful way fanfilms are made, porn parodies face a different treatment. However, Brain’s films – including a Star Wars parody that
Fannish guanxi
Affective communication and guanxi, seems to lie at the heart of fan practices, as both politics and ethics. Ling Yang&Hongwei Bao. 2012. ’Queerly intimate: Friends, fans and affective communication in a Super Girl fan fiction community’ Cultural Studies, 26 (6)
On Female Fandom & Gift Culture…
In female fandom’s gift culture, gifts correlate to aspects of the self, such as time or talent. This sort of exchange turns one role of woman and gift on its head: the woman is still the gift, but now she
Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 9
Today’s scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from Katherine E. Morrissey, who is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. It’s from a Twitter thread, reposted with permission. “Some fans are using Tumblr’s new content restrictions as a call
The regifting economy that is emerging, I argue, is the result of the industry’s careful cultivation of a parallel fan space alongside grassroots formations of fandom. By precariously attempting to balance the communal ideals of fandom’s gift economy with their
[QUOTE] From Tisha Turk, Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom’s gift economy
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 special worth to “gifts of time and skill”
[QUOTE] From Bethan Jones, Fifty Shades of fan labor: Exploitation and Fifty Shades of Grey
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, and then used that community and the work
[QUOTE] From Tisha Turk, Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom’s gift economy
The phrase fan work is typically used, by both fans and academics, in the sense of work of art; it refers to fan fiction, fan vids, fan art. Within fandom, these objects are “the main focus of most discussion outside
[QUOTE] From Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, Editorial: Fandom and/as labor
It is now well established that watching television can usefully be conceptualized as work (Jhally and Livant 1986; Smythe 1977), and a labor framing has been applied to user-generated content by critical media studies scholars (Andrejevic 2009; Fuchs 2012; Hesmondhalgh
[QUOTE] From Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, Editorial: Fandom and/as labor
To modify the open source software saying “Free as in free speech, not as in free beer,” fan work is “For free as in a gift, not for free as in without pay.” Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, Editorial: Fandom and/as