Lostpedia and Wiki Fandom Article

15Sep09

Just a quick pointer to my newest publication: in the new issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, I’ve published “Sites of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of Lostpedia.”Here’s the abstract:
This essay explores the award-winning fan site Lostpedia to examine how the wiki platform enables fan engagement, structures participation, and distinguishes between various forms of [...]

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Tags: Lost, lostpedia, wiki

To Spread or To Drill?

25Feb09

I was invited by Henry Jenkins, Josh Green, and Sam Ford to contribute to a book project they are working on, Spreadable Media: Creating Value in a Network Culture.You can see an outline of the project posted serially on Henry’s blog, emerging from a research paper drafted as part of the Convergence Culture Consortium. The [...]

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Tags: Battlestar, bsg, complexity, Lost, lostpedia

Producer vs. viewer bibles

18Jan09

In today’s NY Times, there’s an interesting profile of Gregg Nations, the script coordinator of Lost, whose job includes maintaining the continuity bible for the show. For me, the most interesting part is this paragraph:
Had he a background in computer science, Mr. Nations now says, he might have approached the Lost project differently. “The best [...]

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Tags: Lost, lostpedia

The Texture of Remix

23May08

I’ve written some about vidding before – it’s an area of fan culture that I’m not too familiar with, but I’m interested when I find examples that speak to me. So I found this video, via Jason Sperb’s blog, quite interesting. It’s a vid of Punch Drunk Love set to Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” done by [...]

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Tags: punch drunk love, radiohead, vidding

Lost In Media Res

13Feb08

Just a quick pointer to any Losties reading the blog – this week I’m participating in a series of Lost video commentaries at In Media Res. So far, Roberta Pearson has posted about the mobisodes, Will Brooker about the season 3 finale, and Stacey Abbott about shipping fanvids – coming soon are entries from Julian [...]

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Tags: in media res, Lost

Understanding vidding

21Nov07

My double conference weekend had ups & downs. The Futures of Entertainment 2 conference was great, leading to an excellent connection with Jesse Alexander and the oddity of Tim Kring commenting on my blog! FoE2 gave me hope for future intersections with media creators that could be mutually rewarding, not just me leeching info for [...]

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Tags: beatles, buffy, MIT, vidding

Television writers – on strike, but off-base

11Nov07

The writers’ strike is reaching at the one week point. Since my last post, an 11th hour negotiating session led the writers’ to inexplicably cave on one of their chief demands, doubling the DVD residuals. Ken Levine offers the explanation – the studios had suggested that pulling DVDs from the table would yield a new [...]

Filed under: Fandom, Film Industry, New Media, TV Industry, TV Shows, Technology, Television   |  13 Comments
Tags: Heroes, Lost, strike, wga

Dumbledore’s sexuality and the authority of the serial author

21Oct07

As you might have heard, Dumbledore is gay. Or at least so says J.K. Rowling.
I’m less interested in how this impacts our understanding of the world of Harry Potter, the relationships between Albus & other characters, or even the cultural controversies surrounding the series that this announcement has already inflamed. What interests me more is [...]

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Tags: authorship, fan fiction, Harry Potter, Lost, sexuality

Raftman Fandom

13Oct07

I have a particular interest in narratives about popular culture fandom. In part it’s for teaching, as I like to show films like High Fidelity and Almost Famous
that dramatize how fandom matters in people’s lives. But I also find them generally compelling when done well, as the dramatic power of the intense affective relationship that [...]

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Tags: comics, raftman, short films

A Fabulous Fanvid

26Sep07

For those of us counting down the days to The Wire’s final season, I give you The Honorable Clay Davis (courtesy of Slate):

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Tags: The Wire

Guest blogging on Henry Jenkins’s site

31May07

Just a heads up that I’m guest blogging on Henry Jenkins’s blog, as part of his continuing series exploring gender and fandom/fan studies. I was honored to be invited to bat leadoff – the first and second part of my conversation with Karen Hellekson is online now. If you read my blog and not Henry’s [...]

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