Transformative Works and Cultures

TWC Releases No. 12 (Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies special issue)

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) today released issue No. 12, "Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies," guest edited by Kazumi Nagaike and Katsuhiko Suganuma, both of Oita University, Oita, Japan. This issue features academic articles on the growing interest in and engagement with Boys' Love (BL) within international fan communities. Following its regular format, this open-access online multimedia journal has collected scholarly essays, personal essays, and book reviews that seek to bridge fan and academic writers and readers. TWC is published under the umbrella of the nonprofit fan advocacy group Organization for Transformative Works.

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Culturas e Obras Transformativas

Transformative Works and Cultures (Culturas e Obras Transformativas) é uma publicação acadêmica de avaliação inter pares que busca promover desenvolvimento acadêmico na área de obras e práticas de fãs. A publicação foi lançada em 15 de setembro de 2008. Há duas edições por ano: uma em 15 de setembro, e uma em 15 de março.

Aaron Swartz and the Importance of Open Access

Many readers of this blog will have heard of Aaron Swartz, a hacker and free culture activist whose suicide on January 13 sent shockwaves around the Internet. One of the many things Swartz campaigned for - in fact, the cause that got him in the most trouble in the end - was open access to academic research, a cause near and dear to the OTW in general and its Gold Open Access academic journal Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) in particular.

I want to take this sad opportunity to say a few words on what open access is and why it's so important for research on fans. Academics who research fans must do their utmost to make sure their work is available for everyone, particularly fans, the very group they're studying; and all fans should have the right to access to research on topics that are relevant to fandom.aron Swartz and open access

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期刊的目的是什么?

期刊的目的是给关于单个再创作作品、或者他们所来自的更广泛的同人文化的学术分析提供空间,并帮助展示同人和同人作品的社会、教育、和以及审美价值。

成功的期刊也可以帮助对同人圈的学术和理论方面感兴趣的同人爱好者们分享他们的学术成就,促进同人爱好者和学术界的交流,并且可以为OTW再创作组织的解释和保存同人圈以及再创作作品的任务提供理论背景。期刊也会说明个别作品的背景,以及帮助同人作品建立它们应得的艺术创作的地位。

TWC Releases No. 11

Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 11, a general issue with essays that focus on a variety of topics, including lip dubbing, fan fiction, early modern romance, pro fiction that includes fans as characters, and author's notes. The issue comprises six theoretical essays, four Symposium pieces, and two book reviews.

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Internet and Fan Culture Inspires Social Activism

Transformative Works and Culture Discusses the Impact of Fandom on Social Activism

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TWC: Taking a stand for open access

Did you know that the OTW’s journal, Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), is more than just academics writing about fandom? TWC actually has all kinds of content that's written by and for fans, such as its just-released ninth issue, which focuses on fan/remix video. The best part about TWC, at least if you ask its editors, is that its articles get discussed, debated, and even argued about within fan culture, while still serving as a resource to acafen, other academics, and the media.

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TWC Releases No. 9 (Fan/Remix Video special issue)

Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 9, Fan/Remix Video, guest edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo. An exciting slate of essays and multimedia explorations discuss issues related to videos of all sorts, including fan videos, AMVs, and political remix. Check out TWC's vids for the issue:

 

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TWC releases No. 8 (Race and Ethnicity/Textual Echoes special issue)

Transformative Works and Cultures has released No. 8, a special guest-edited double issue comprising Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (edited by Robin Anne Reid and Sarah N. Gatson) and Textual Echoes (edited by Cyber Echoes, a collective comprising Berit Åström, Katarina Gregersdotter, Malin Isaksson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, and Maria Helena Svensson).

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