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What do you mean pleasure, white man? abstract
'What Do You Mean "Pleasure," White Man?:'
Complicating Empathic Identification and Self-Insertion in Online Fan Fiction
This presentation is based on the premise that that all fan created productions create complex relationships between creators and audiences that center on various pleasures relating to empathetic identification, the desire ( Read more... ) -
What do you mean pleasure, white man? Handout 5
Table 5: Average Entries and Comments by Member
LJ COMMUNITY AV ENT/MEM
Shawn and Gus 0.54
Shawn_Lassiter 1.02
Psych Slash 1.28
House_Slash 1.64
House_Chase 1.68
Foreman_House 2.08
House_Wilson 3.29
LJ COMMUNITY AV COM/MEM (NOTE: Commenting is not restricted only to ( Read more... ) -
What do you mean pleasure, white man? Handout 4
Table 4: Chronology, Size, Comparison points
LJ COMMUNITY
CREATED
House_Slash
3/2/2005
House_Wilson
4/11/2005
House_Chase
5/6/2005
Psych Slash
7/17/2006
Shawn_Lassiter
8/28/2006
Shawn and Gus
12/23/2007
Foreman_House
4/1/2008
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Analyzing Literature by Numbers!
A report on a fascinating research project by scientists on Victorian literatureWith a big enough data base, it is possible to draw some conclusions based on frequency of words and phrases -- thus, corpus stylistics! (Although I'd be a bit leery of the Google connection--I am becoming more and more dubious about Google....but I know many colleagues ( Read more... ) -
*frowns at html and rft*
I think I may swear off the rich text format in DW/LJ forever. Whatever I did today managed to bollix up the crosspost links (we're close to LJ going down for that hour or maintenance, but that's probably not the reason ( Read more... ) -
Repurposing my Academic Journal
I began this journal to talk about my move to teaching online -- since I decided to teach online primarily because of my fandom experiences, it made sense to keep the work inside LiveJournal. The thing I discovered was that moving all sorts of courses to online teaching cut into my fan and aca-fan activities online -- and I wasn't posting much in ( Read more... ) -
Chapter for Academic Anthology on Ethics of Fan Studies
'White privilege: [I'm] Soaking in It': White Queer Female Aca-Fan Doing Scholarship on RaceFail 09
In her monograph Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics Wendy Chun argues that, despite the early utopian marketing promises, people participating in online communities do not leave their races (or racisms) behind. The ( Read more... ) -
Current work: two proposals that have been submitted for 2011 conferences
This presentation considers the extent to which the pre-internet social definitions of private and public, global and local, have changed on the internet. Some perceive the internet as a utopian space that can enable unprecedented forms of participatory democracy (Henry Jenkins). Jenkins has argued, in Convergence Culture, for the usefulness of ( Read more... ) -
The first presentations I did on racism imbroglios in fandom
"'Harshin Ur Squeez': Racisms in LiveJournal Fandoms"
This project focuses on the rhetorics (written and visual) of race in debates that occurred in several online LiveJournal Fandoms during 2007. The conflicts involved two specific media fandom communities (StarGate: Atlantis and Dr. Who); one Harry Potter community (Daily_Deviants), and an ( Read more... ) -
Handout: Color BLind Racism (sorry for length, but cuts with rtf don't work on LJ
4. "If I don't know about it, it clearly does not exist!"
HANDOUT 4:: Basic File Statistics (UAM)
BEAR
LAKE
Length
Words in text
28809
7331
Sentences in text
1991
463
Text Complexity
Av. Word ( Read more... )