If you have fanfiction posted to An Archive of Our Own, are interested in fandom/fanworks or would like to comment on digital archiving of fanworks, you may be interested in taking
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The Cardiff University-based Fan Studies Network will be of interest to graduate students, indie scholars, & other academic folk with links to fandom or popular culture studies.    A quick browse of the blog indicates that it isn't limited to science fiction-oriented fandom. Good source for Calls for Papers (CFPs), news about publications and ( Read more... )

Please see contact information at the end of the announcement; I have no further info.
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CFP for Fan CULTure: An Examination of Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century

With the advent of new media technologies and social networking sites making communication faster and easier than ever, there exists a dearth of opportunity to see how fan cultures ( Read more... )

Academic Trekkies...here's your chance. Topics include race & gender (I hope that someone will adequately address the bigoted fan reaction to Uhura/Spock in STXI) and LGBTQ fans.
Engage!Call for Proposals: Star Trek Fan Culture Chapter proposals are being sought for an upcoming anthology on Star Trek fan culture to be published by Intellect Books ( Read more... )

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Writing In Color: Writing “Race Neutral” Characters (Part 3 & 4) Shadow and Act | Cinema of the African Diaspora

"Courtesy of the Writers Guild of America, West Committee of Black Writers... here are parts 3 and 4 of their Writing In Color panel recently uploaded to YouTube. If you missed them, watch parts 1 & 2 HERE (really all worth watching)"

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Dipping a toe into the sometimes turbulent waters of fandom today in support of female characters in media-driven SF/F. This delightful Uhura picspam image was made by
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Daryl G. Frazetti, a professor of Anthropology and Sociology will soon publish The Anthropology of Star Trek, the results of his ethnographic research in Trek fandom. The conclusions are interesting. I thought that I wasn't what one would describe as an overly engaged Trek fan (I lean a little further toward SF/F books than media), but changed my ( Read more... )

Had a fine time at WisCon 35.


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