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Oct. 23rd, 2008
Okay, I'll admit it: I really did find that first Jenkins article that we had to read for this class boring. But Jenkins has completely made it up to me in this article on fan culture and collective intelligence (which I think I've read before, but I enjoy it so much that I don't care.) It's written in a very accessible style, so if you are at all interested in fandom I recommend you take a look at it. It's a bit long, but it's worth it. I'll be quoting from it somewhat liberally this week.
What makes it so topical is a discussion I had with my friends over the weekend, after we'd finished recording my podcast about podcasts (which I'll be putting up this weekend.) This is a conversation that we've had before, and it may be familiar to some of you, especially people who are familiar with fandom and fanfic in general.
We were talking about how Anne Rice is insane.
Okay, okay, so that might be a bit harsh. In the interest of protecting my ass if her lawyers come after me (which they probably won't unless I start writing fanfiction based on her characters), I'll use my "I statements". I think, based on many of the things she's said on her website and in Amazon.com reviews of her own books, that she has some ISSUES, with a capital ISSUES.
( Below: Does Ms. Rice exemplify fears of new communications technologies and the fandoms that use them? Or is she just... DIFFERENT? )
What makes it so topical is a discussion I had with my friends over the weekend, after we'd finished recording my podcast about podcasts (which I'll be putting up this weekend.) This is a conversation that we've had before, and it may be familiar to some of you, especially people who are familiar with fandom and fanfic in general.
We were talking about how Anne Rice is insane.
Okay, okay, so that might be a bit harsh. In the interest of protecting my ass if her lawyers come after me (which they probably won't unless I start writing fanfiction based on her characters), I'll use my "I statements". I think, based on many of the things she's said on her website and in Amazon.com reviews of her own books, that she has some ISSUES, with a capital ISSUES.
( Below: Does Ms. Rice exemplify fears of new communications technologies and the fandoms that use them? Or is she just... DIFFERENT? )
