OTW Fannews: Pushback on Kindle Worlds
Taal Engels The first wave of Kindle Worlds press coverage mostly quoted from Amazon's press release with a few reaction links. Follow-up articles proved to be more critical and more aware of fannish...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: OTW and the Press
Taal Engels The Kindle Worlds story didn't just result in hundreds of media outlets running pieces on the story, but also quite a few requests to the OTW for comment. While some have been previously...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Cultural objects
Taal Engels The Barnard Center for Research on Women's blog proposed feminist remixes as the next step to combating negative media representations. "Through our studies, work, and activism, many of us...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: The visibility of gender
Taal Engels The rise in fandom visibility seems to be leading to an increasing media backlash about fans expressing themselves but women fare differently in these discussions. A particularly visible...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Documenting Fandom
Taal Engels The Hollywood Reporter wrote about Japan smashing the tweets per second world record. The reason? The word "balus" was tweeted "during a television broadcast of Hayao Miyazaki's anime...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Not so surprising sports fandoms
Taal Engels Although they're among the most visible fandoms in many cultures, sports fandoms are also often gendered in the media. Forbes took note of better-late-than-never marketing to women, while...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Criticizing Fandom
Taal Engels Entertainment Weekly kicked off a new pop-culture-related column with a look at TV show finales and cited former OTW board member Francesca Coppa. "Mentally, it is difficult to imagine...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Fanworks going public
Taal Engels Over the last ten years as fanworks have spread to more and more online sites, it's become a daily occurrence to find a media story pointing to one or more of them. Often these stories...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: What fanfic does for writers
Taal Engels Two articles examined the value of Amazon's Kindle Worlds. Slate featured author Hugh Howey. "I had read Slaughterhouse-Five in high school and didn’t really get it. And then a few years...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Getting Along
Taal Engels TIME's James Poniewozik examined why different media fandoms need to play nice. "Outlander the TV series is an adaptation, which Starz–like HBO or AMC or any other adapter–is making for an...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Product Placement
Taal Engels Vulture released a series of articles on fanfiction, including an attempt to unravel "My Immortal", and a look at some published authors discussing fanfiction activities. "[T]he undeniable...
View ArticleFannews: It's the Little Things
Taal Engels At Huffington Post, The Flash actress Candice Patton was happy to hear about fanfic about her character. "There's Iris fan fiction? That's news to me. I try to stay off the parts of the...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Who's Fandoming Now?
Taal Engels South Africa's Daily Maverick provided an overview of fandom with some definitions. "You cannot be a part of fandom if you love something but do not interact with fellow fans. Fandom is...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Fangirls in the Wild
Taal Engels San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) season means it's time for the media to once again declare that fangirls exist. The New York Times thought this was the year for fangirls. "A bunch of oddballs —...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Staying Vigilant
Taal Engels The Japan News posted a story about how a Trans-Pacific Partnership crackdown could affect fanfiction publishing. "[T]he 12 nations engaged in the TPP negotiations are building a consensus...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: What's in a Name?
Taal Engels The New Statesman weighed in on an important discussion as fanworks become more well known: what actually counts as one? "It comes down, as it often does, to money. Because money, and a...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: For Reals
Taal Engels The BBC noted that fans have been right all along in their devotion to popular culture, given that it's adding to the stories of old. "Our modern civilisation, like all civilisations before...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Setting Goals
Taal Engels The Phillipine Star offered a look at fanfic's changing prominence. "You, me, and your lola are probably now aware of what fanfiction is. In my simple mind, it used to be some underground...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Justifying the Drama
Taal Engels The Learned Fangirl wrote about the professionalization of fandom."As we see more mainstream writing and academic study about the economies of fan culture and digital media, the ideas that...
View ArticleOTW Fannews: Crossing Boundaries
Taal Engels Hypable reported on how a The 100 fanfic went viral in non-fanfic communities. "It’s absolutely hilarious to see how non-fandom has responded to this fictional argument, and how people have...
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