[This month’s guest post is courtesy of Ruth Flaherty, PhD Candidate in Intellectual Property and Economics, UEA Law School. You can find Ruth on Twitter at @RuthFlahertyUEA.] As many of you fellow fan scholars may be aware, the acceptances for
Guest post: The print fan fiction library
This month’s guest post is by Ludi Price from the Centre for Information Science, City, University of London. You can find Ludi on Tumblr at ludi-ling and on Twitter at @LudiPrice. I’m sure we’ve all done it. Printed out a
[QUOTE] From Machinima: A Meme of Our Time | Tracy Harwood
Machinimators have created and distributed tens of thousands of fan vids, parodies, satires, reenactments and original content through online fora in an increasingly complex ecology of technologies and new media. Its influence has been widespread, impacting digital arts, film, new
[META] On regional releases and disrupting international fandoms
Since a few weeks back, some blogosphere hand-wringing has been going on about how Game of Thrones is the most pirated show of 2012. The second season has been downloaded via torrents about 25 million times. Many people in the
[META] Living in a Den of Thieves (Notes Towards a Post on Big Content)
Two weeks ago, in the wake of the hacker collective Anonymous shutting down U.S. government and Big Content websites in avowed revenge for the U.S. Attorney General’s taking down the upload service MegaUpload, I asked my Twitter followers (only half