rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Nov. 9th, 2022 12:34 pm)
Judith Fathalla, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Textschallenging authority by appealing to authority )

Ashley Hinck, Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in the Digital Ageoptimistic (maybe too much) )

Jessica Balanzategui et al., Fame and Fandomcelebrity fandom studies )
Nick Bilton, American Kingpinrise and fall of the Silk Road ).

Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Diedcompelling memoir )
Jana Mathews, The Benefits of Friends: Inside the Complicated World of Today's Sororities and Fraternitieshighly highly recommended )
Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New Worldenvironmental and racial history )
Luke McDonagh, Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorshipa bit niche )
Larisa Kingston Mann, Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Powermusic as cultural property )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( May. 30th, 2012 11:53 am)
Infocide in open content communities: Includes flouncing, but puts it in a larger context.

Bankruptcy court overlooks predatory lending, discharges student loans based on debtor’s autism instead. It’s important to remember that the strategies that benefit an individual client in court can be harmful overall (and maybe even to the client in some ways). Here, the strategy is only desirable because of the way creditor-favoring laws have made it almost impossible for a person to discharge educational debt; we didn’t have to create these alternatives.

Via [personal profile] giandujakiss: There was fan fiction before you called it fan fiction, and before there was copyright it was called writing. -- Anne Jamison, English professor

Grant Morrison, the Columbian exchange, Barbie as folk art, the relationship between freedom and the internet, and a great book on the history of technology )
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