Vol. 42 (2024): Fandom and Platforms | Transformative Works and Cultures Guest edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, Lesley Willard

#TWC42, published last year, is a special issue focused on Fandom and Platforms! Guest edited by @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social, & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social, this issue emphasizes putting forward platforms in fan studies! Read it here:

"One day longer, one day stronger": Online platforms, fan support and the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes | Transformative Works and Cultures

Closing out the #TWC42 Symposium section, Sabrina Mittermeier discusses how the strikes in Hollywood led to talks about fan labor in ""One day longer, one day stronger": Online platforms, fan support and the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes". Read here: bit.ly/4a6tpzt

Fandom image-making and the fan gaze in transnational K-pop fan cam culture | Transformative Works and Cultures

Next, Muxin Zhang explores the link between the rise of #Kpop fan cams in South Korea and the success of their use in North America. Zhang links this success to the idol's passivity. Read their #TWC42 Symposium piece here: bit.ly/3JKUMEC

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Martyna Szczepaniak presents the quantitative differences in the content of author's notes in Polish #HarryPotter fan fiction on #FFNet and #Ao3 for #TWC42 in "The differences between author’s notes on fanfiction.net and AO3"! Read it here: bit.ly/4a1vzAG

Players, production and power: Labor and identity in live streaming video games | Transformative Works and Cultures

Closing out the Articles section of #TWC42, Irissa Cisternino positions video game livestreaming as a novel form of fan production & considers the extant literature on streaming in order to locate critical gaps in the scholarly conversation! Read it here: bit.ly/4d1r5wF

Boys’ love in the Chinese platformization of cultural production | Transformative Works and Cultures

Next in #TWC42, Lin Zhang investigates how boys' love (BL) content, particularly live-action adaptations of BL web novels, occupies a fraught position in Chinese popular culture. Read "Boys’ love in the Chinese platformization of cultural production" here: bit.ly/3Q1KaoC

Censorship on Japanese anime imported into mainland China | Transformative Works and Cultures

Our final category of article in #TWC42 is "power". In "Censorship on Japanese Anime Imported into Mainland China," Jionghao Liu & Ling Yang use #Bilibili as a case study to examine the censorship of Japanese #anime in Chinese contexts! Read it here: bit.ly/3Q0pKfz

Closing out this subsection of #TWC42 Articles is Amber Moore's article "Analyzing an Archive of Allyish Distributed Mentorship in Speak Fan Fiction Comments and Reviews." Moore theorizes the term "allyish distributed mentorship" in this must-read: bit.ly/4aA0ZPp

Next in #TWC42, Sourojit Ghogh & Cecilia Aragon consider the quintessential fandom figure of the #lurker in "Leveraging community support and platform affordances on a path to more active participation: A study of online fan fiction communities"! Read it here: bit.ly/4ato2LJ

In "Fandom and the Ethics of World-Making: Building Spaces for Belonging on BobaBoard," Paul Ocone takes an in-depth look at #BobaBoard for #TWC42! Read it at: bit.ly/43ZieaE #TWC #OTW

The “community” category of Articles in #TWC42 begins with @wfwagenaar.bsky.social’s “Discord as a Fandom Platform” which considers #Discord as a “playground” for fans! Read it here: bit.ly/3UapKfx #TWC #OTW

Interrupting our #TWC42 coverage with a reminder: The #TWC Fans of Color Research Prize deadline is 1 month way!! More details here: bit.ly/3UjuTSX

This is NOT an April Fool’s joke!

Next up, Sam Binnie explores how fans of #MurdochMysteries use social media to participate in their fandom in “Using the Murdoch Mysteries Fandom to Examine the Types of Content Fans Share Online”! Only in #TWC42: bit.ly/4abgYTQ #OTW #TWC

Following that, Axel-Nathaniel Rose theorizes parallel posts in relation to transtextuality, commonplace books, "dark academia," & Foucauldian technologies of the self in his Article "#web-weaving" in #TWC42! Read it here: bit.ly/43siQFq

Next in #TWC42, Kimberly Kennedy investigates the use of expressive "commentary tags" across platforms commonly used by fans. Read '"It's not your #tumblr": Commentary-style tagging practices in fandom communities' here: bit.ly/3TrCkFv #TWC #OTW #tagging

First up is a piece from David Kocik, PS Berge, Camille Butera, Celeste Oon, & Michael Senters. In '"Imagine a place:" Power and intimacy in fandoms on Discord', the authors explore 3 levels of power structures & intimacies visible on #Discord. Read here: bit.ly/4adjsB6 #TWC #OTW #TWC42

The #TWC42 Article section is divided into 3 parts by the guest editors: architecture, community, and power. "These categories," the editors state, "are intentionally broad and often exhibit productive overlaps." #TWC #OTW

Hot off the presses! #TWC42, a special issue guest edited by @mariakalberto.bsky.social, @effietheant.bsky.social, & @lesleyawillard.bsky.social is officially live! Dig in here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... #TWC #OTW