I've decided to f-lock all posts related to my own fic and art (for this reason, which is also locked for added transparency!). If you'd like to get updates on my fanstuff via here, please comment to be added.

I still crosspost here and use LJ for commenting, but my Dreamwidth account is now my home base and contains all the research-related shiny and info. Please visit!

Forgot to mention this because the acceptance notification came while I was in Deadlineville. I finally get to visit the US! The place is pretty famous, so this is all rather exciting.

The main reason for this trip is Console-ing Passions, a feminist media studies conference that will take place in Boston on 19-21 July. l'll be part of Mel Stanfill's panel 'Media fandom and/as labor'. Rebecca Carlson and Karen Hellekson will be on that panel as well. It looks like I'll get to meet a ton of people I've only ever spoken with over the internet, which is awesome.  ( Read more... )
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Welcome to Life is "A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers."


Tom Scott: Welcome to Life (2.5 min)

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From now on I'll be doing some occasional posting at Symposium, the blog associated with the OTW's journal Transformative Works and Cultures. Symposium is a great place for meta, and I'm thrilled at this chance to contribute. Here's my introduction post. This entry was originally posted at http://fanficforensics.dreamwidth.org/51373.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

It's International Day Against DRM. Lovely opportunity to re-read the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers.

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The OTW has been doing a survey on people's experiences with the org. It closes today, so best be quick if you were planning to take this excellent opportunity to gush, vent, and tell the org what you want from it.

By the way, the annual membership drive has been accompanied by a couple of really nice introduction posts about various OTW projects, what they're about, what their goals are, and so on. Brief but very informative:

• Transformative Works and Cultures journal
• Open Doors archiving project
• Fanlore wiki (which has recently become my new favourite thing in the world and will be babbled about at length later)
• Legal advocacy

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kouredios pointed out a Reddit thread in which Joss Whedon answers the question "How do you feel about scholarship about your work and the fact that academics tend to delve quite deeply into it, perhaps to the point of publishing interpretations you did not intend?" with the following:

"All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you."

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Found via Techdirt: a video from Microsoft that "informs" you about the dangers of counterfeit software. The dangers consist of strangely clad men who will invade your office to hide in your copy machines, steal your external hard drives, and abscond with your credit cards and desktops. Conventionally attractive women are particularly at risk of this.

Piracy Lurks Everywhere (2min)
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The author of that funny video about how the copyright industries trumpet absurd numbers on piracy-related financial and job losses has written up an informative extended version of his talk in which he explains where he got the numbers for his calculations. It's worth checking out, mainly because it makes clear that there frequently are no reliable sources for the staggering, terrifying, and mostly imaginary numbers on piracy-related economic losses. And consequently, that there is no factual basis for many laws and proposals for laws that include restrictions on online freedoms in the name of enforcing copyright law - SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, the DMCA, and other acronyms.

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