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Welcome to The Symposium
The Symposium Blog, an online subsidiary of Transformative Works and Cultures recently welcomed two new new correspondents - Andrea Horbinski and Lisa Schmitt - who will be joining Alex Jenkins as regular contributors.
Andrea Horbinski was a 2007-2008 Fulbright fellow at Doshisha University in Kyoto and is currently a Ph.D. student in modern Japanese history at the University of California, Berkeley. She hopes to write a history of manga for her dissertation. (You can read more about her and her interests at her intro post.)
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Fanfiction hits the big Time
Lev Grossman's The Boy Who Lived Forever, about fanfiction, was published online this morning and will be available in Friday's print issue of Time. Thanks to everyone who gave interviews or background information for the piece.
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Calls for Papers on Boys' Love and Comics at TWC
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), the OTW's scholarly journal, has recently announced calls for papers for two upcoming issues.
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LOTR and Twilight Fan Fiction Archives Bought - For Profit
Two fan archives in The Lord of the Rings and Twilight fandoms — LOTRfanfiction.com and The Twilight Archives — have been bought by a web developer named Keith Mander, who plans to develop these archives' features and to generate profit by increasing traffic and adding advertising.
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June 2011 Newsletter, Volume 50
Welcome to the 50th issue of the OTW newsletter!
Fandom in the news
Lev Grossman of Time magazine is writing a feature article about the cultural and legal issues surrounding fanfiction. See this post for details: Fanfiction Writers! Want To Be Interviewed for Time? Thank you to the many fans who have taken the time to talk with Mr. Grossman about their experiences.
Board member Francesca Coppa was recently interviewed by NPR's All Things Considered for a segment on Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's new website, in which she talks about how "more" is central to the fannish ethos.
Archive of Our Own
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Accessibility, Design and Technology Committee update - June 2011
We've had a busy month in AD&T! There have been several exciting code developments, and because life events for our team have prevented us sticking to our planned monthly deploy schedule, we've built up an impressive 98 issues for our next deploy! This is giving our testers plenty to work on!
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Fanfiction Writers! Want To Be Interviewed for Time?
Lev Grossman of Time Magazine (himself a novelist whose most recent novel has been compared both to Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia) has been working on a feature story for Time about the cultural and legal issues surrounding fanfiction. Members of the OTW's Communications and Legal staff have already talked with him, but now he'd like to talk to some fanfiction writers directly. So we've set up a LiveJournal community for the purpose: lg_interview.
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NPR on Pottermore
Members of the OTW including board member Francesca Coppa were interviewed for a segment on J.K. Rowling's new website, Pottermore, for NPR's All Things Considered. The segment will air later today, Thursday, June 23; (for the record, the OTW is always in favor of "more!" and we welcome Pottermore as long as it doesn't try to regulate or undermine any of the vast number of existing Harry Potter fan communities and sites.)
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May 2011 Newsletter, Volume 49
Welcome to our May newsletter!
Archive of Our Own
The Accessibility, Design, and Technology committee (AD&T) has been working with the mods of Dark Agenda to develop new collections and challenges functionality for their Kaleidoscope multimedia fanwork exchange for rare chromatic source fandoms. Watch for exciting new nominations and tag set bundling features coming in the near future — this will offer more flexibility to challenge mods and users and ease the burden on our hard-working tag wranglers. AD&T is also working on prompt-based challenges, enhanced subscriptions features, and expanded CSS for public skins. For more information on these features, please see the latest admin post on the Archive.
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Links Roundup for May 24, 2011
Here’s a roundup of stories that might be of interest to fans: news about Google Video, Blogger, "A Billion Wicked Thoughts," Creative Commons, and "Con or Bust," just beneath the cut!
* Google Video is being subsumed into YouTube for all but "Google Video for Business" and "Google Video for Education" users. If fans are using Google Video to host their fanworks, they can either move them to YouTube or download and save copies. (This is, for the record, more courtesy than Imeem showed its users when it eliminated its video hosting service, as it did not give patrons the chance to download their works before deleting them.) You can find more information in this Google Video Help article.