To Think Transnationally: Dissertation Blog #2
When I first proposed my dissertation, I wanted to focus on how fandom is produced and consumed in the U.S. I had that inclination not because I’m a nationalist or it I thought it would be easy, but...
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Getting Clicky With it: Fan Power and Online Polls
Hats off to fans; they get stuff done. The latest evidence of this is the ways in which shippers (Vocabulary lesson for the unfamiliar: Shipper, n.: short for relationship-er; people who advocate for...
View ArticleDissertation Blog #3: Queering Fandom
I recently had a relatively epiphanic week with regard to my dissertation. As I spend more time inhabiting diss-space, such weeks (and the blog posts they generate) may get more frequent, as I suspect...
View ArticleHack This Post! Contesting Technological Neutrality at Technology in Theory...
This week’s post is a recap of an event in which I participated on Monday, April 2. It’s housed over at the blog of the organization that hosted the event, the venerable Unit for Criticism at the...
View ArticleNormative Development, Queering, and Fans
The normative trajectory of development is frequently made sense of, as so many normative things are, as “natural.” Kids “naturally” hit certain physical, mental, and experiential milestones at certain...
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Enclosure and the Privatization of Fandom
In their 2009 piece Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter argue that “digital piracy is a classic example of the criminalized social struggles that...
View ArticleTumblr Perverts and Other Hazards of Fandom
I think most people take some joy in being right. I’ll certainly admit that I’m one of them. But as a critical academic I’m often going around making dire predictions or showing awful intended and...
View ArticleFandom as Counterpublic?
I added a week on music to my Gender in the Media syllabus this past semester because I am still deciding whether or not I want my next project to be about music, and I chose the “Communities of Sound:...
View ArticleEverything You Know about Politics and Activism is (about to be) Wrong
The critique that the current generation is politically apathetic is well-worn. Indeed, it has been recycled for several generations at this point and maybe is always cast at each generation by the...
View ArticleMy #SCMS13 Presentation
ETA: Some people are being told that they’re “forbidden” to view the Prezi. Not sure what’s going on with that, since it is working for me (even in a different browser than is logged in). But,...
View ArticleLimited Common Property, Fandom, and Indigenous Knowledges
Because the tech-support people I need to talk to in order to straighten out a data analysis snafu are in Germany, creating temporal challenges, I’ve been catching up on reading. As a result, I had...
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Kindle Worlds, Part 1: The Economic Raw Deal
On May 22, Amazon announced “Kindle Worlds,” a New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write Fan Fiction, and my corner of the fan-studies internet exploded. Reading (and having) those...
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Kindle Worlds II: The End of Fandom as we know it?
Last week, I talked about the various economic and legal issues involved in Kindle Worlds, like unpaid labor, extraction of value, fair use, and ownership of one’s own creative products. (And that’s...
View ArticleMy #IR14 Presentation
It took a while, since I had this little thing called a dissertation defense last week, but here at last is my presentation from the Association of Internet Researchers annual meeting October 23-26 in...
View ArticleMy Dissertation Defense #DrMel
And speaking of my dissertation defense, here’s the Prezi for that for those who were unable to attend, since I wasn’t able to have it streamed or live-tweeted.
View Article“The Fan” as/in Industry Discourse #scms14
My presentation on the Industry Studies and/as Audience Studies panel #k19 at the 2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.
View ArticleFrom Lesbian Sitcoms to Femslash Fandom: The Lesbian Continuum and #SwanQueen
I am preparing to teach a graduate course called Queer/ing Popular Culture this fall, and I decided it was time to get around to actually reading the late, great Alex Doty’s Making Things Perfectly...
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