cyber.law.harvard.edu/cx/Glossary Designed to accompany CopyrightX, a free online course on copyright for non-lawyers. Useful for everyone.
[QUOTE] From Fan-Yi Lam, Comic Market: How the World’s Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese Dōjinshi Culture, p240-241
Since the 1980s, it has become common for talented dōjinshi creators to be recruited by professional companies and become popular on the mass market. Many famous artists have had a past in the dōjinshi scene or are still involved. Artists—including
[QUOTE] From Keiko Nishimura, Where program and fantasy meet: Female fans conversing with character bots in Japan
A fertile imagination and tendency toward fantasy play are characteristic of fujoshi culture (Galbraith 2011). For example, when male otaku (hardcore fans of anime, manga, video games, and so on) from one thread on 2channel, Japan’s largest anonymous bulletin board,
[META] 32 fic writers arrested in China in 2011, and we missed it
Reading Reflection on Chinese boys’ love fans: An insider’s view by Erika Junhui Yi in the latest issue of TWC, I was struck not just by how extreme reactions to BL can get, but also how little info sometimes gets
[LINK] Professional Author Fanfic Policies – Fanlore
fanlore.org/wiki/Professional_Author_Fanfic_Policies This page is such interesting reading, especially the patterns that emerge when authors talk about the reasons why they changed their minds about fic, why they allow it but don’t read it, and so on. Several authors (Ellen Kushner,
[META] New TWC issue on boys’ love fandom is live
Transformative Works and Cultures has published its twelfth issue, entirely devoted to boys’ love fandom around the globe (full press release). There are some excellent articles on Hetalia, the politics of BL in Germany, character bots on Twitter, BL in
[META] Open Access Explained! (by phdcomics)
Open Access Explained! (by phdcomics) Transformative Works and Cultures, the open access fan studies journal that Fanhackers is affiliated with, will be publishing a new issue on boys’ love fandom very soon. Expect shiny. By way of celebration, we’ll be
[META] “To Dance Again!”: Affect, Genre, and the HARRY POTTER Franchise
“To Dance Again!”: Affect, Genre, and the HARRY POTTER Franchise: stultiloquentia: One way that AVPM creates an intimate relationship between fan and text is by transforming the multibillion dollar Harry Potter transmedia franchise—the ultimate form of mass culture–back into folk
[META] ilovecharts: Crossover fics between the top 20 TV fandoms on AO3
ilovecharts: Crossover fics between the top 20 TV fandoms on AO3 –saspiesas [An explanation and thoughts behind it] Data analysis of the AO3 using processing.js, a programming language for visualizing data on the web. When you’re done reading the explanation for the
[QUOTE] From Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture, p62. (via considerdasource.tumblr.com)
Here’s the paradox: to be desired by the networks is to have your tastes commodified. On the one hand, to be commodified expands a group’s cultural visibility. Those groups that have no recognized economic value get ignored. That said, commodification