by Keidra Chaney Alice E. Marwick’s Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale University Press) is at once a cultural…
Kyung Hyun Kim & Youngmin Choe’s edited collection of academic essays, The Korean Popular Culture Reader is an important entry into popular culture and Asian…
danah boyd’s It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens is one of the most important books ever on online culture, teens, and the ways…
By Nicole Keating I had been ignoring the New 52 iteration of Harley Quinn. Not because I don’t like Harley. Au contraire, puddin’! Since I…
by Keidra Chaney Sociologist and music fan Jennifer C. Lena sought to explore the nature of various historic and contemporary music communities and document the…
by Raizel Liebler Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman is another great addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. This book doesn’t dive…
by Keidra Chaney The publication of Textual Poachers in 1992 opened the door of acceptance for an academic study of fan communities and transformative works,…
by Raizel Liebler Orly Lobel’s book Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding (Yale University Press…
By Keidra Chaney Few fandoms are as collaborative and interactive as anime fandom. While it is perfectly acceptable to simply watch an anime series, there…
26 Jul: I Read A Book: Christine R. Yano’s Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific
by Raizel Liebler State of the world kawaii! One of the inspirations for our starting this blog was trying to explain Japanese culture, especially anime…