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…
by TLF writers and friends In what we expect to be a very rare feature, TLF will induct iconic pop-culture characters into our Hall of…
by Raizel Liebler Rare is high-quality writing about science for non-scientists. I would read all of these books I recommend in this series again, something…
by Keidra Chaney The “Maker” Movement has been gaining a lot of steam in the past couple of years as the logical evolution of the…
23 May: I Read A Book: Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industry
By Raizel Liebler At the point that it seems like everything has been franchised in media, from public domain works like Sherlock Holmes, to Star…