Courtney!!! Milan ? on Twitter Sooooo, you may or may not have seen on Twitter that there is currently a case in an Oklahoma court about A/B/O fanfiction. Courtney Milan provides a good summary in the thread above, but the
OAPEN Library – Productive Fandom This cosplay-centric book on fandom by Dr. Nicolle Lamerichs is free to download and read. Blurb: This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that
Britta Lundin on Twitter
Britta Lundin on Twitter Here we go again. A dude is making a thing that mostly non-dude fans have been doing for decades so suddenly it has value and is worthy of attention. And to make up for making you
Why Did Fans Flee LiveJournal, and Where Will They Go After Tumblr?
Why Did Fans Flee LiveJournal, and Where Will They Go After Tumblr? destinationtoast: meeedeee: “What you’ll notice from the chart is that between 2007 and 2009, things were happening with LiveJournal that made people not like it anymore. From the
When Men Write Fanfiction, It Isn’t Fanfiction Because It’s “Academic”
When Men Write Fanfiction, It Isn’t Fanfiction Because It’s “Academic” Some of you might have spotted this week’s kerfuffle about how it if was written by a dude it can’t be fanfic, in the guise of an interview with author
mybitca: So I just scrolled through a clickbait article called 20 Dark Secrets You Never Knew About Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I was reading it, and it was pretty much what I expected, until I got to this part: Under
Lecture 3: Early Fan Studies | Lori Morimoto on Patreon
Lecture 3: Early Fan Studies | Lori Morimoto on Patreon Check out this free Fan Studies lecture on early fan studies by Lori Morimoto! It’s a great overview of some of the works that started fan studies as a discipline.
FSN 2017 Louisa Stein ‘Fandom/Resistance’ Keynote: audio recording
FSN 2017 Louisa Stein ‘Fandom/Resistance’ Keynote: audio recording If you were following us on Twitter over the weekend of June 24th-25th this year, you may have noticed that we went to the Fan Studies Network Conference and did a spot
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
stitchmediamix: This is a narrated PowerPoint of the presentation I gave at the last Fan Studies panel at PCAACA 2017 April 15, 2017 since many people missed out on a chance to attend! (I’ll update this with links to relatively