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Organization for Transformative Works is new fan organization

Somehow I haven’t yet posted about The Organization for Transformative Works, a new non-profit established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate. As shown by [...]

MIT Comparative Media Studies Conference Discusses Fan Labor and More

Unfortunately, I can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program (run by the godfather of fan studies, Henry Jenkins, “Sir Convergence Culture”). Hopefully, we’ll be presenting at Media in Transition 6 because participating in Media in Transition 5 was so great! I highly recommend the following [...]