The following link goes to a Sendspace download page where you can access an mp3 file of my interview with Paraka, a vidder, reader, and podficcer. Feedback can be left below, or sent to kmcnic1 at luc dot edu. Thanks for listening!

My interview with Paraka may be found here: http://www.

In class a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the way different texts in several new media texts (Stud Poetry, Shelley Jackson's Skin Project, the interactive animated novels associated with the tv show Heroes, etc.). In those texts, the insider community is created through participation and interaction with the texts. In fact, participation, a ( Read more... )

So, I've mentioned fan studies as an interest of mine in new media and textual studies, but fandom, the creators of fan works, form a collection of subcultures that many people may not be aware of, so a little explanation of what I mean by fan studies (and fanfiction, and vidding, etc.) might be useful ( Read more... )