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Imagining academic journal article titles based on lines from Good Omen's Season 1 (mostly) and 2.
“Funny If We Both Got It Wrong, Eh?:” A Case of Process Breakdown in a Centralized Organization
“Just Canceling Each Other Out:” Causal Links between Workplace Burnout and Employee Retention
“Oh, Well, Let Me Tempt You:” The Consequences of Sexual Harassment on the Operations and Maintenance of Infrastructure Mega-projects
“It’s On The Street, It Knows The Risks:” Addressing Cultural Perceptions Inhibiting Pedestrian Facility Improvements in the Transportation Sector
“And I Would Like To Spend…Mmmph:” Deconstructing Communication Failures and their Impact on Relationship Efficacy
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TWC 42: Fandom and Platforms [Special Issue]
Editorial
Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, and Lesley Willard; Putting forward platforms in fan studies
Article
David Kocik, PS Berge, Camille Butera, Celeste Oon, and Michael Senters; "Imagine a place:" Power and intimacy in fandoms on Discord
Kimberly Kennedy; "It's not your tumblr": Commentary-style tagging practices in fandom communities
Axel-Nathaniel Rose; #web-weaving: Parallel posts, commonplace books, and networked technologies of the self on Tumblr
Sam Binnie; Using the Murdoch Mysteries fandom to examine the types of content fans share online
Gamze Kelle; How Covid-19 has affected fan-performer relationships within visual kei
Rhea Vichot; The expression of sehnsucht in the Japanese city pop revival fandom through visual media on Reddit and YouTube
Welmoed Fenna Wagenaar; Discord as a fandom platform: Locating a new playground
Sourojit Ghosh and Cecilia Aragon; Leveraging community support and platform affordances on a path to more active participation: A study of online fan fiction communities
Paul Ocone; Fandom and the ethics of world-making: Building spaces for belonging on BobaBoard
Amber Moore; Analyzing an archive of allyish distributed mentorship in "Speak" fan fiction comments and reviews
Jionghao Liu and Ling Yang; Censorship on Japanese anime imported into mainland China
Lin Zhang; Boys’ love in the Chinese platformization of cultural production
Matt Griffin and Greg Loring-Albright; Platforming the past: Nostalgia, video games, and A Hat in Time
Irissa Cisternino; Players, production and power: Labor and identity in live streaming video games
Symposium
Yvonne Gonzales and Celeste Oon; Public versus private aca-fan identities and platforms: An academic dialogue
Dawn Walls-Thumma; The fading of the elves: Techno-volunteerism and the disappearance of Tolkien fan fiction archives
Martyna Szczepaniak; The differences between author’s notes on FanFiction.net and AO3
Muxin Zhang; Fandom image-making and the fan gaze in transnational K-pop fan cam culture
Sabrina Mittermeier; "One day longer, one day stronger": Online platforms, fan support and the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes
Book review
Sebastian F. K. Svegaard reviews "Vidding: A history" by Francesca Coppa
Laurel P. Rogers reviews "Fandom, the next generation," edited by Bridget Kies and Megan Connor
Axel-Nathaniel Rose reviews "Mediatized fan play: Moods, modes and dark play in networked communities," by Line Nybro Petersen
Multimedia
Naomi Jacobs, Katherine Crighton, and Shivhan Szabo; Building the spear: A demonstration in faking and remaking real feelings for an imaginary work
Rachel Loewen; "Darkness never prevails": Doctor Who Covid-19 videos as keystones for pandemic engagement
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New issue of Empirical musicology review is available!
The only academic journel on music theory I find to be consistently worth reading.
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A new kind of nervous condition found among Ford workers was referred to as "Forditis." While "Fordizatsia" (Fordization) in Russia signaled the efficiency that would help create a new world for workers, assembly line workers in Detroit used the word to denote a malformation in their bodies wrought by Ford's efficiency methods. "Fordization of the face" referred to the pained and twisted expressions that became stuck on the features of workers who spent day after day trying to clandestinely communicate in circumvention of FMC 's rule of total silence on the floor. According to one historian of labor organizing at Ford, "the Ford Face" was like "a human mask" with no expression and vacant eyes. It was created in conjunction with the "Ford Silence," a lack of human voices that produced an eerie quietness despite the screech and grind of machinery.
—David E. Greenstein, "Assembling 'Fordizm': The Production of Automobiles, Americans, and Bolsheviks in Detroit and Early Soviet Russia," in Comparative Studies in Society and History
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Academia eats with the JSTOR access
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Academic publishing is lazy and unethical
by Sam Leith
Last week witnessed the first tremors of what could be a welcome revolution: the resignation en masse of the 40-strong editorial board of NeuroImage magazine – regarded as the leading publication for brain-imaging research in the world. The board, whose members include very senior figures in the world of brain science, is protesting what it sees as the publisher Elsevier’s greedy and unethical behaviour.
Objecting to this grotesque situation shouldn’t be an ideological issue. There’s something here to hate for everybody
They were reacting to the company’s refusal to reduce the journal’s ‘publication fees’ – that is, the fees scientists must pay to publish their findings on an open-access, free-to-read basis. At issue isn’t, quite, the existence of such fees – if you’re giving articles away for free, someone obviously has to pay. But these fees run into thousands of pounds a pop, and bear no decipherable relation to the cost of formatting an article and whacking it up online. And NeuroImage is not, in this respect, any sort of an outlier in the academic world.
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What would you like to have free access to for a year?
All academic papers everywhere!
I can technically get a lot of them through Sci-Hub, but it's still a hassle when doing research.
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Brought to y'all by my latest rabbit hole, y'all should check out the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures.
Yes, it is run by the same folks as ao3, and there are fascinating write-ups of stuff I've only seen in passing. It's really cool and a good use of a couple hours.
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CFP: Centering Blackness in Fan Studies **DEADLINE EXTENDED**
This special issue centers Blackness in fandom studies. Fandom studies has gestured toward race generally, and Blackness in particular, from its alleged white center while always keeping race at its margin. It has largely co-opted the language of race, difference, and diversity from the margins and recentered it around white geeks and white women. Indeed, fandom studies has done lots of things—except deal with its race problem. But as Toni Morrison (1975) asserts, that is the work of racism: it keeps those at the margins busy, trying to prove that they deserve a seat at the center table. In this way, those considered marginal expend energy trying to be granted access to the center while citing, reifying, and expanding the supposed universality of the center that fails to engage the margin because it is too particular. If, as the title of Audre Lorde’s famous 1984 essay reminds us, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” then it is time to willfully ignore white fandoms, just as Black fandoms have been willfully ignored.
For this special issue, we seek to privilege and celebrate Blackness, not as a comparative but as enough on its own. We want essays that build on the relatively small but groundbreaking scholarly work that centers Black fandoms, including work on young Black male (Brown 2000) and female (Whaley 2015) comic readers; Black gay sitcom fans (Martin 2021a); Black fan “defense squads” that protect fictional characters’ Blackness (Warner 2018); Black fan labor (Warner 2015); Black antifandom (Martin 2019b); Black fans’ enclaving practices (Florini 2019b); Black female music fans (Edgar and Toone 2019); and Black acafans (Wanzo 2015). It also engages and with and builds on our Black feminist foremothers, including bell hooks (1992), Jacqueline Bobo (1995), and Robin Means Coleman (1998), who showed us ways to think about how Black audiences engage with media. This corpus of work on Black audiences and fandoms provides a base for further theorization about the experiences and meanings of Black fandom. We encourage work that engages, nuances, and challenges this foundational work, leading to novel reconsiderations of how fan studies defines and understands Black fandoms.
We invite submissions that contribute to a conversation that centers Black audiences, fans, antifans, and global Blackness itself. We are not interested in comparative studies of Black fandom practices, because Blackness is enough. This issue seeks to center Blackness and (anti)fandom in all of its permutations. We hope the following suggested topics will inspire wide-ranging responses.
Black folks and “doing” fandom.
Black fans and deployment of (anti)fandom.
Black fan practices imbricated in a politics of representation.
Affective Black fandoms.
The politics of Black (anti)fandoms.
Interactions between Black fans and media producers.
Audience/fan response to Black-cast remakes and recasting non-Black-cast texts with Black actors.
Black fandoms of non-Black-cast media.
Blackness and enclaving.
Black music fandom.
Black sports fandom.
Black fandom and labor.
Black fandom and affect.
Black antifandom and hate.
Global Black fandoms.
Black fandom and contemporary or historical politics.
Mediated constructions of Blackness.
Black fandoms and celebrities/parasocial relationships.
Black queer fandom.
Disabled Black fandom.
Case studies of specific texts related to Black fandom.
Historical and archival accounts of Black fandom.
Submission Guidelines
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is an international peer-reviewed online Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and promotes dialogue between academic and fan communities. TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms, such as multimedia, that embrace the technical possibilities of the internet and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.
Submit final papers directly to Transformative Works and Cultures by January 1, 2023. JULY 1, 2023
Articles: Peer review. Maximum 8,000 words.
Symposium: Editorial review. Maximum 4,000 words.
Please visit TWC's website (https://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or email the TWC Editor ([email protected]).
Contact—Contact guest editors Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Matt Griffin with any questions before or after the due date at [email protected].
Due date—July 1, 2023, for 2024 publication.
Works Cited
Bobo, Jacqueline. 1995. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia University Press.
Brown, Jeffrey A. 2001. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Click, Melissa A., and Sarah Smith-Frigerio. 2019. “One Tough Cookie: Exploring Black Women’s Responses to Empire’s Cookie Lyon.” Communication Culture and Critique 12 (2): 287–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz007.
Coleman, Robin R. Means. 1998. African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor. New York: Routledge.
Early, Gerald. 1988. “The Black Intellectual and the Sport of Prizefighting.” Kenyon Review 10 (3): 102–17.
Edgar, Amanda Nell, and Ashton Toone. 2019. “‘She Invited Other People to That Space’: Audience Habitus, Place, and Social Justice in Beyoncé’s Lemonade.” Feminist Media Studies 19 (1): 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1377276.
Everett, Anna. 2001. Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Florini, Sarah. 2019a. Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York: NYU Press.
Florini, Sarah. 2019b. “Enclaving and Cultural Resonance in Black Game of Thrones Fandom.” In “Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color,” edited by Abigail De Kosnik and andré carrington, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1498.
hooks, bell. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press.
Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2021a. The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2021b. “Blackbusting Hollywood: Racialized Media Reception, Failure, and The Wiz as Black Blockbuster.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60 (2): 56–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2021.0003.
Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2019a. “Fandom while Black: Misty Copeland, Black Panther, Tyler Perry, and the Contours of US Black Fandoms.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 22 (6): 737–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877919854155.
Martin, Alfred L., Jr. 2019b. “Why All the Hate? Four Black Women’s Anti-fandom and Tyler Perry.” In Anti-fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age, edited by Melissa A. Click, 166–83. New York: NYU Press.
Morrison, Toni. 1975. “A Humanist View, Part 2.” Presented at Black Studies Center public dialogue, Portland State University, May 30, 1975. Transcription available at: https://www.mackenzian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Transcript_PortlandState_TMorrison.pdf.
Rose, Tricia. 1994. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.
Shankman, Arnold. 1978. “Black Pride and Protest: The Amos 'n' Andy Crusade.” Journal of Popular Culture 12 (2): 236–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1979.1202_236.x.
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. 2005. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Tracy, James F. 2001. “Revisiting a Polysemic Text: The African American Press's Reception to Gone with the Wind.” Mass Communication and Society 4 (4): 419–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327825MCS0404_6.
Wanzo, Rebecca. 2015. “African American Acafandom and Other Strangers: New Genealogies of Fan Studies.” Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 20. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0699.
Warner, Kristen. 2018. “(Black Female) Fans Strike Back: The Emergence of the Iris West Defense Squad.” In Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, 253–61. New York: Routledge.
Warner, Kristen J. 2015. “ABC’s Scandal and Black Women’s Fandom.” In Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, edited by Elana Levine. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth. 2015. Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
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My dream is to one day receive a pr package from JSTOR
#jstor#I love you JSTOR#never in my life have I wanted a tote bag this bad#academic journals#anthropology#archaeology#academia
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In many ways England, later Britain, and its Atlantic colonies were economically, politically, militarily, and technologically peripheral to India, and that was part of the problem that English fabric producers faced. From the colonial perspective, direct access to India, by hook or by crook, offered cheaper prices and greater wealth than importing Asian goods from London. From the imperial government's perspective, sensational reports of colonial participation in piracy and trade in the Indian Ocean suggested both a dangerous, costly problem of law and order and a valuable new opportunity for marketing the East India Company's goods. On the one hand, the Calico Acts gave colonists more consumer freedom than their metropolitan counterparts. On the other, that freedom depended on an increasingly entrenched belief that colonists were not equal to English or British people as either producers or consumers. They were, instead, different types of subjects to be used to support not only private English or British shippers and manufacturers but also the East India Company through the consumption of goods considered economically, morally, and politically unacceptable in England and later Britain itself.
—Jonathan P. Eacott, from "Making an Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Atlantic Colonies, and the Structure of the British Empire," in The William and Mary Quarterly
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shouldve known learning english makes you suicidal :( gonna blame all my mental problems onto english from now
#i actually havent read the whole article yet coz I have work to do#but you bet im gonna#funny tag#language learning#lia speaks#academic journals
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