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April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Fanhackers
Labels: Fanhackers, Spotlight, Development & Membership Committee, Financial Support
Do you geek out over academic and wider media discussions about fandom? You might just be a fanhacker!
Fanhackers is one of the OTW’s most recent projects, launched last year on Tumblr and WordPress. Its goal is to connect useful research on fans, academic or otherwise, with people who want to hear about it. Right now they're focusing on bringing fan studies scholarship closer to fans themselves, through reblogging links and quotes of interest.
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April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Transformative Works and Cultures
Labels: Spotlight, Transformative Works and Cultures, Development & Membership Committee, Journal Committee, Financial SupportWhat gets you excited about academic studies in fandom?
"Here's what I'm excited about," said Karen Hellekson in 2008: "an academic journal that welcomes, instead of rejects or overtly mocks, fan studies as a topic ... that takes as a given the notion that fans provide something valuable to our culture that ought to be analyzed."
That journal is Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC): run, peer-reviewed, edited, and supported by OTW members and fans like you.
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April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Legal
Labels: Spotlight, Legal Advocacy, Development & Membership Committee, Financial SupportIf you've ever felt the sting of an unfair takedown notice, you know that copyright and trademark owners and other rights-holders don't always play nicely, or recognize the legitimacy and the value of fan activity. That's why the OTW's Legal Advocacy team is on call to defend fandom and the importance of fair use and transformative works.
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April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Fanlore
Labels: Spotlight, Fanlore, Development & Membership Committee, Financial SupportHave you visited Fanlore lately? If you have, then you probably know it’s a living, evolving history of fandom, created and maintained by fans. Launched in 2008, Fanlore is a collaborative wiki in which fans are invited to record their experiences and memories of fandoms, fanworks, events, and everything fannish. It's open for fans just like you to join the community in shaping how everyone perceives and remembers fandom.
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April Membership Drive: Spotlight on Open Doors
Labels: Spotlight, Open Doors, Development & Membership Committee, Open Doors Committee, Financial SupportAs this year’s theme of Stepping Stones reminds us, our future is built on our past. No OTW project better exemplifies that than Open Doors, which is dedicated to preserving fanworks for future generations.
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Stepping Stones: OTW April Membership Drive
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March 2014 Newsletter, Volume 78
Labels: Newsletter, OTW Sections
For more information about the purview of our committees, please see the committee listing on our website.
I. CELEBRATING FANWORKS & FANDOMS
Following the milestone achievements of several of our projects in February, Communications planned a series of events in March to celebrate. The OTW thanks all of our panelists for taking part, and was delighted to see the many fans joining us for the chats. If you missed any of the events, check that link to catch up!
Journal followed their announcement of the Fan Fiction Studies Reader by releasing issue number 15 of Transformative Works & Cultures which featured articles on a variety of fandoms. They are already busy finishing up issue 16, and the editorial team is working hard on issue 17, which will come out in September.
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Events Calendar Post for April 2014
Labels: Conferences, Studies, Call for Papers, Fan Conventions, Event, Open Doors Committee, Entertainment Industries
Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of April! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be viewed by event-type, such as Academic Events, Fan Gatherings, Legal Events, OTW Events, or Technology Events taking place around the world.- Log in to post comments
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April Showers is here!
Labels: Archive of Our Own, Accessibility, Design, & Technology, Fanlore, Event, Wiki Committee
Here at the OTW, preserving fannish history is a central part of our mission! We're proud to be able to offer fans a place to archive their works on the Archive of Our Own, and tell their own fannish histories on Fanlore. Both of these sites passed major milestones in February and represent works and stories about many thousands of fandoms.
However, we know that there are a lot more histories and fanworks out in the world which haven't found their way to the AO3 or Fanlore. So this month, we invite you to bring us fannish April showers by digging out those old zines, memories of past cons, archived personal webpages, tales of shipwars and fannish events, works on slowly-decaying archives, new works you've been putting off creating, and more! Help us celebrate fandom's history and diversity by uploading your old (and new) works to the AO3 and by telling your tales on Fanlore. When uploading to the AO3, you can tag your uploaded works April Showers 2014
Alternatively, celebrate your favorite fanworks on the Archive by sharing your recs with us. To do so, simply bookmark the fanwork in question and add it to our April Showers Recs collection.
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OTW Fannews: Doing the research
Labels: Conferences, Gender and Sexuality, News of Note, Comics, Studies, Fanfiction , Fannish Communities, Television
Geek Anthropologist posted a video of Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon, a PhD Student at Concordia University, Montreal, presenting her paper on Fan Fiction, Fan Autoethnography, and Everyday Life. "I define fan fiction more broadly to include stories written both in and outside of fandom communities. In order to illustrate my argument, I will employ an autoethnographic approach, recalling my own experiences writing fan fiction as a young pre-teen. In light of the recent trend of positioning oneselves as an aca/fan (Academic/Fan) in fandom studies, I differentiate between fan fiction and fan autoethnography."
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