The sure-to-be-wonderful MIT Comparative Media Studies Futures of Entertainment 2 conference is starting this morning, and while I'm excited about the entire event, I'm not surprisingly most interested in the panel on fan labor, which is scheduled for this afternoon and features the brilliant Catherine Tosenberger, known and loved by many of us ( Read more... )

If you've got any friends in fandom on your friends' list, you've probably heard that something's going on, again. If you haven’t heard about this yet, please read these two CNet articles for brief background, read the official lj_biz post and see this collection of official responses from LJ. Firefox News has a good editorial on some of it, and ( Read more... )

Current controversies with both Livejournal/Six Apart and FanLib have one stark issue in common: the conflict between corporate desire to profit from users and the content they generate, and the users' own sense of ownership not only in their content and creativity, but in the hosted services they use to publish that content and to connect with ( Read more... )

I'm at the Future of Entertainment conference at MIT, hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium. Current panel: futue of tv. There's a producer from Smallville here (guy who created the Chloe Chronicles webisodes), and I am so so tempted to go up to him after and tell him why I'm no longer an SV fan and what the show could do to win back some of ( Read more... )