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Online Fanfic Forensics research bibliography

Nele — Sun, 11/02/2008 - 21:09

No research without a bibliography, of course. I'm addicted to Diigo, a social bookmarking service that offers amazing tools for sharing and annotating web pages. I've been using the service for a year now, and I hesitate to call it god-given and perfect only because it isn't open source and lacks some basic citation info capabilities. (Hint hint, nice Diigo developers.)

I've created a Diigo group for Fanfic Forensics to store and share all the online articles and book references for my project. The bookmarks tagroll on the right-hand side of the Fanfic Forensics main site shows the latest saved items and a very pretty tag cloud showing all of the bibliography's topics. The Fanfic Forensics group is still one-person and fairly small, a few hundred items so far. (My oldest group -and the one I'm most proud of- is the one that gathers manga and Japanese pop culture reference material for the Let's Manga project at my university. It's absolutely massive and I heart it ever so much.)

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Talk about the cultural economics of fanwork, data gathering and comparative research between Japanese dojinshi and English-language fanwork, and legal, economic and cultural policy issues related to dojinshi and to fanwork in general. This site is a personal research playground cum treasure hoard, and also a resource in the making about the function of dojinshi in Japan's system of cultural production. Warning: mature or triggering content in fanwork may be discussed here. See research ethics.

PhD research data (WIP)

  • Draft thesis text
    • Introduction
      • Problem statement
    • Methodology
      • Methodologies commonly used for fanfic and dojinshi research
      • Development of a theoretical framework and methodology for this project
        • The 'open work' according to Umberto Eco
        • Arguments for viewing fanwork as 'open work'
        • Advantages to viewing fanwork as 'open work'
        • An open work-based methodology in practice
    • Description of samples
      • Sample selection process
    • Analysis of samples
    • Hypothesis based on analysis
    • What is this good for?
    • Conclusion
  • Fanwork data sets and dictionaries
    • Dojinshi data set
    • Fanfics data set
    • Glossary of dojinshi terminology
    • Visual grammar of manga dictionary
  • References

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  • Japanese Studies K.U. Leuven
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  • 同人用語の基礎知識 (Basic dojinshi terminology)
  • Organization for Transformative Works (OTW)
  • Metafandom
  • PhD Comics
  • When Fangirls Attack

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