Month: October 2018

Article published in Internet Histories

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I’m delighted to announce that my article “Talking by letter: the hidden history of female media fans on the 1990s internet” is now available in Internet Histories. This article draws on the interviews I and my fellow investigators did for the Fan Fiction and Internet Memory oral history project in 2012, which was led by the excellent Prof. Abigail De Kosnik. If you haven’t read her book Rogue Archives, you totally should.

I want to thank again all the fans who participated in the interviews, as well as the many members of the FFIM and Fan Data research teams. Our collaboration was one of the highlights of my graduate career, and I’m very happy to be able to add this publication to those commemorating it. Many thanks as well to the editors of this special issue of Internet Histories, Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry, for accepting this paper and helping to improve it through the revision process.

Mechademia Minneapolis + 12.1, “Transnational Fandoms”

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Thank you to everyone who attended Mechademia Minneapolis at the end of September, and especially to those of you who came to listen to and discuss my paper “A Children’s Empire: The Prewar ‘Media Mix’ of the Kodansha Club Magazines.” After also giving this presentation in Kyoto earlier this year, I think I’ve finally figured out the next steps.

In the meantime, I’m pleased to confirm that I’m serving as the guest editor for Mechademia 12.1, “Transnational Fandoms.” We’re in process on the issue now, and I think we’re putting together a strong volume expanding beyond the usual sites in Japan and North America. I look forward to everyone reading it when it’s published next year.