Zitat aus: Versaphile: "Silence in the library: Archives and the preservation of fannish history". In: Transformative Works & Cultures 6 (2011), S. 2
Weblog zu meiner Diplomarbeit "Deutschsprachige Star Trek-Fan Fiction. Genre, Kanäle, Motive", die ich im März 2013 am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien fertiggestellt habe
Montag, 26. März 2012
Archives and fannish history
Freitag, 23. März 2012
Zines in Bibliotheken - warum?
"Zines are the purest form of counterculture expression that exists in printed form, and insightful indicators of current times. They represent the under-represented and give voice to marginalized members of society. Zines are interesting and cheap, and as a public library, it is our job to provide access to all types of information".
Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011
Dissertation über SF-Fankultur
Aus dem Abstract: "This study reveals science fiction fan culture as it was observed during a science fiction convention in southern California in 2009. Conventions, although social gatherings, are also places where learning takes place, and the culture is shared. The researcher, a fan herself, collected demographic data through an anonymous survey, then interviewed several fans to develop information about their educational history, cultural attitudes, and interactions with text. The evidence presented shows this group identifies itself as a subculture with its own language, arts, values, and traditions. Fandom also exhibits many characteristics of an affinity group as described by Gee (2003), in that its members are united by a common cause, and hold similar attitudes toward knowledge acquisition and information sharing".
Dienstag, 20. September 2011
Zine Fest mit Bibliotheksbeteiligung
Organisatorin Lacey Prpic Hedtke in einem Interview mit Loren Green über das "Twin Cities Zinefest" in Minneapolis für das Blog dressingroom.
Montag, 6. Juni 2011
Fanzine-Neuerwerbungen
Fan Fiction ~ Kindergekritzel?
Samstag, 4. Juni 2011
Frauen brauchen Geschichten
Freitag, 3. Juni 2011
Strange new worlds
Dienstag, 24. Mai 2011
Cuddling became nuzzling
Neva Chonin: "Spock Does Mulder/Woman-written 'slash' fiction couples male characters from film and TV". In: SF Gate, 30. September 1999.
Trekkies in der Bibliothek
Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011
Mittwoch, 20. April 2011
Life after Trek-Podcast über Fanzines
Freitag, 15. April 2011
Ist Fan Fiction Fair Use?
Fan Fiction-Amthologie aus dem Jahr 1978
Montag, 4. April 2011
Zombies im Science-Fiction-Land
Peter Hiess von Evolver Books zu Gast bei der Science Fiction-Gruppe Wien. Wer genau schaut, wird mich auch entdecken ;-)
Dienstag, 29. März 2011
Neue Website für Barnard Zine Library
Zine-Ausstellung in Prag
Die BigMag-Datenbank, die noch mehr dieser Publikationen verzeichnet, findet sich auf www.bigmag.cz. Zum Hintergrund des Projekts heißt es dort: "BigMag is a showcase of magazines which are otherwise not easy to find as they have never been displayed at eye level on the newsstands. Chance is they didn't make it to the newsstands at all. Some of them were published just once; others were for years just few Xeroxed copies held together with a glue stick. Some of them became a breeding ground for maverick journalists and some of them are now to be seen in design handbooks. Most of them have never gained any official recognition. But each of them is a testimonial to someone’s passion for distilling actual events and repeatedly communicating with the world through assemblage of text and image on paper".
Montag, 21. März 2011
Fanzines für den Kindle?
Freitag, 18. März 2011
CfP: Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung
Dienstag, 15. März 2011
The demand for stop-action Star Wars
Noch interessanter finde ich aber die Passagen über Star Wars. Anderson schreibt, dass er seine Kinder vor die Wahl stellte, einen der offiziellen Star Wars-Filme in HD und Surround Sound (inkl. Popcorn) oder Lego-Stop-Motion-Filme von Gleichaltrigen auf YouTube anzuschauen. Sie wählten ohne langes Zögern die selbstproduzierten Animationsfilme: "It turns out that my kids, and many like them, aren't really that interested in Star Wars as created by George Lucas. They're more interested in Star Wars as created by their peers, never mind the shaky cameras and the fingers in the frame. (...) The demand for stop-action Star Wars must have always been there, but just invisible because no marketer thought to offer it. But once we had YouTube, and didn't need a marketer's permission to do things, an invisible market suddenly emerged" (S. 194).
Im Kapitel "Nonmonetary economies. Where money doesn't rule, what does?" beschäftigt sich Anderson mit der Motivation von Menschen, z.B. Wikipedia-Artikel (und ich ergänze: Fan Fiction) zu schreiben: "In short, doing things we like without pay makes us happier than the work we do for a salary. (...) The opportunity to contribute in a way that is both creative and appreciated is exactly the sort of fulfillment that Maslow privileged above all other aspirations, and what many jobs so seldom provide. No wonder the Web exploded, driven by volunteer labor - it made people happy to be creative, to contribute, to have an impact, and to be recognized as an expert in something" (S. 189).