[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcvSWoQWV0] While applying marketing techniques in concert with authenticity isn’t something I will be using to help make my non-existent business reach a new level…
It’s always amusing (and mildly annoying) when mainstream media outlets cover fandom and pop culture. The underlying smugness of their commentary often seems to rear…
A McCain campaign staffer states on the candidate’s official website: It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow…
Please, for the love of all fandoms, know of what you write, oh editorial writers who wish to use fannish examples to make your non-fandom…
On Gamine Expedition, Sara Grimes writes about the Harry Potter lawsuit differently than I’ve seen before (or the economic production /fan labor issues that I’ve…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWqq2mgVOZs] In the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy, Dr. Miranda Bailey breaks out with her mad Star Wars knowledge, both movie canon and the books,…
Check out Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice, 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008). [translation: it’s in the Columbia Journal of Law and…
I have a long history with Metallica, as they were essentially my introduction to the world of metal, along with other young Gen-X metal kids,…
By Keidra Chaney and Raizel Liebler Recently there has been considerable corporate media content owners’ backlash against “user generated content” on the Internet – content…
As part of a discussion of viral marketing on Cinema Blend, an unwarranted swipe was made towards (generally) female experiences of fandom, while praising (generally) male experiences…