Changes to fan creative practice are various and telling. Posting fiction that has not been beta read and is thus riddled with errors relating to both show canon and to writing is now routine. Leora Hadas (2009, 5.2) has described
New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures
The open access fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has released another issue! The issue’s eight articles, three Symposium pieces, three interviews, and three book reviews all relate to the roles that objects play in various fan cultures. All articles:
[QUOTE] From “Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the good fan” Kristina Busse, Participations 10.1 (2013)
If female fans are dismissed more easily, then so are their interests, their spaces, and their primary forms of engagement. Or, said differently, gender discrimination occurs on the level of the fan, the fan activity, and the fannish investment. There
[QUOTE] From “Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the good fan” Kristina Busse, Participations 10.1 (2013)
If female fans are dismissed more easily, then so are their interests, their spaces, and their primary forms of engagement. Or, said differently, gender discrimination occurs on the level of the fan, the fan activity, and the fannish investment. There
[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
[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
stultiloquentia: spockemon: Number One | The Cage If you don’t recognize this woman, Number One, a.k.a. ur-Spock, may I recommend Francesca Coppa’s gorgeous essay about her and a bunch of other awesome things, Women, “Star Trek,” and the Early Development
OTW Fanvidding series, part 6: Good Vids, Bad Vids (Source: http://techtv.mit.edu/)
[META] OTW Fanvidding series, part 4: Tech and Tools
OTW Fanvidding series, part 4: Tech and Tools
[META] OTW Fanvidding series, part 3: Why We Vid
OTW Fanvidding series, part 3: Why We Vid