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Transformative Works and Cultures' Issue No. 33, "Fan Studies Methodologies," is out! This issue's interview and 24 essays seek to start conversations on how academics do fan studies. Read more at https://otw.news/releases-fan-62ad8
otw_staffTransformative Works and Cultures' Issue No. 33, "Fan Studies Methodologies," is out! This issue's interview and 24 essays seek to start conversations on how academics do fan studies. Read more at https://otw.news/releases-fan-62ad8
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This month's OTW Guests, Katie Davis and Cecilia Aragon, have researched fanfic communities, and discuss the non-fans they wish would read their book, as well as what surprises LiveJournal had in store for them. Read more at https://otw.news/guest-post-f340c
OTW Guest Post: Leah Steuer
May. 14th, 2020 10:28 amotw_staff
Fandom didn't begin with the Internet, and this month's guest Leah Steuer has evidence of how similar it's been over the decades. Information may be disappearing, but fan studies help preserve knowledge of the past. Read more at https://otw.news/guest-post-a1a35
OTW Guest Post: Lauren Rouse
Nov. 22nd, 2019 10:59 amotw_staff
OTW Guest Lauren Rouse has been doing research analyzing fanwork comments and multimedia works such as fanart, reading guides, mood boards, etc. and finds herself inspired by "bad" things that happen in fandom https://otw.news/guest-post-29a9a
OTW Guest Post: Marina Cano
Jun. 29th, 2017 10:09 amotw_staff
In 2015, researcher Marina Cano asked fans to help with a survey of Jane Austen fandom. She has now published the results & has a further request for OTW followers: https://goo.gl/VvnWJA
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“The coalescence of femslash as a metafandom unto itself may have paradoxically contributed to a bird's-eye view of its marginality. As we might glean from the primacy of slash as the unmarked term (denoting same-sex couples in general and male-male couples in particular), F/F remains underrepresented not only in scholarly research but also arguably in fandom overall (compared to M/M and also to het [heterosexual] and gen [nonsexual] fiction and art).
Femslash fans often frame their experience in this way, as was the case at the "Where's the F/F?" panel at the May 2015 WisCon feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin. The conversation took as a jumping-off point detailed statistics, compiled by destinationtoast, on fan fiction posted at Archive of Our Own.”
TWC issue No 24 on femslash fandom is out! Read about Grey's Anatomy Wynonna Earp, The 100, Orphan Black, Once Upon a Time, Kpop, Jpop & more! https://goo.gl/n59EMJ
OTW Guest Post: Ann McClellan
Apr. 30th, 2017 10:16 amotw_staff
“We often think of fandom as something new and something in the hands of the audience, but my research revealed a long history of how businesses and publishers like Titbits played important roles in devising, ‘activating,’ and controlling seemingly amateur fan spaces. Perhaps this will make us think more deeply about the supposed divisions between author and fan, between corporation and individual, and between corporately controlled spaces and fan controlled spaces.”
Ann McClellan writes about Sherlock Holmes fandom in the latest issue of Transformative Works & Cultures, and tells us how fandom history was shaped. https://goo.gl/jZLjB5
OTW Guest Post: Smitha Milli
Jan. 8th, 2017 02:25 pmotw_staff
Smitha Milli tells us what she found when she analyzed fanfic feedback, plus how characters get depicted in fanfic as opposed to canon https://goo.gl/rVNOcS
OTW Guest Post: Smitha Milli
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Smitha Milli tells us what she found when she analyzed fanfic feedback, plus how characters get depicted in fanfic as opposed to canon https://goo.gl/rVNOcS
Guest Post: Sara Austin
Oct. 1st, 2016 12:03 pmotw_staff
“I came across the TWC special issue on fan activism and ended up teaching one of the essays in my freshman writing class. While writing this essay I used resources from TWC in my research, so it seemed like the natural place to send the finished essay. Not only did the journal seem like a good fit, but I also really like that the journal is open access so that anyone can read it and that the journal uses web links and images in the articles to help connect them to the fandoms they discuss.
TWC is one of the few, or perhaps the only journal that has such a supportive relationship with fandoms.“
Check out our Q&A with Sara Austin about her article in Transformative Works and Cultures studying queer identity in Monster High doll fandom https://goo.gl/FJPVX5
