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OTW Fannews: Acafans of today and tomorrow
Language English For those fans who enjoyed the OTW's academic panel chat you may also want to look at Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics. This...
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Events Calendar for May 2014
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of May! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can...
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OTW Fannews: Fans running the culture
Language English Arthur Chu wrote at the Daily Beast about Battlestar Galactica as the turning point for fanfiction invading popular culture. "[T]echnological change has accelerated to the point where...
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Events Calendar June 2014
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of June! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can...
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OTW Fannews: The fandom business
Language English Fan conventions range from small to large, fan-run to commercial, but increasingly conventions are big business. ICv2 wrote about data from the online ticketing platform Eventbrite....
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OTW Fannews: Uncomfortable Topics
Language English At Buzzfeed, Alison Vingiano wrote about the history of trigger warnings. "By the early 2000s, the term had found its way to LiveJournal, where it was used on fan fiction. Gaby Dunn, a...
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Join the OTW at LonCon or Nine Worlds
Language English The OTW has an opportunity to participate in two upcoming fandom-friendly conventions in the UK: Nine Worlds (Aug. 8-10) and LonCon 3, home of this year's WorldCon (Aug. 14-18). We are...
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Events Calendar for July 2014
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of July! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can...
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OTW Fannews: To fan or not to fan
Language English An L.A. Weekly article on why musician John Roderick couldn't be a fan brought about a number of responses. "[T]here was a turning point somewhere at the end of grade school where kids...
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Events Calendar for August 2014
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of August! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These...
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OTW Fannews: Defining Fans
Language English In The Washington Post Alyssa Rosenberg claimed that political discourse was taking over cultural conversations. "We treat people whose interpretations differ from our own as if they...
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OTW Fannews: The Fannish Perspective
Language English Many theater productions revolve around fannish topics or themes. As a review of Miss Emma’s Matchmaking Agency for Literary Characters dubbed it, the play "is staged fan fiction,...
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OTW at LonCon and Dragon Con!
Language English At this year's LonCon, the 2014 host of WorldCon, the OTW will be hosting a table at LonCon's Transformative Works tent. The tent will be located in the "Fan Village," which should be...
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OTW Fannews: Studying Fandom
Language English The International Business Times was one of many outlets that wrote about a college course on Game of Thrones. "The students also take turns to lead classroom discussions, which touch...
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OTW Fannews: Cons, Cons, Cons
Language English As many cons are opening their doors this month, SDCC continues to draw a lot of media attention. Vox wrote about its evolution. "Please understand: I don't think anyone is wrong to...
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Events Calendar for September 2014
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of September! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These...
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OTW Fannews: Every Kind of Fan
Language English NPR reported on a K-Pop con in Los Angeles. "[T]alking demographics, Killoren says that most of the 40,000 KCON-goers are girls. Now, you might expect that most of the fans are Korean....
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OTW Fannews: Wearing the Mask
Language English A feature on LonCon in The Guardian discussed various fanworks including filk and cosplay. "While most attendees save dressing up until Saturday night's masquerade, Jonathan Hall, 21,...
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OTW Fannews: Finding the Spark
Language English The Sydney Morning-Herald, in Oz Comic-Con puts the power of the geeks on show, reports on "the obsessive, every-so-slightly bonkers and very influential world of 21st-century...
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Events Calendar for October
Language English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of October! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These...
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