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fanficforensics: "...not just for people of different cultures, either. Many people don't grasp the significance of comics of their own culture"
fanficforensics: 'The Last Confederate', or why 'The Last Samurai' is patently ridiculous http://bit.ly/5bTlCx #jskul
fanficforensics: ...and must now leave lovely icebox house to gather literature so I won't make a tit of myself then. If painful knee permits. Getting old
fanficforensics: ...but don't click if you have anything pressing to do for the next 3 weeks, because the vortex will suck you in. Will go read a book now.
fanficforensics: ...but no women for Snape in Japan, apparently. OTOH, a massive amount of James/Snape. Poor Snape.
fanficforensics: ...I've read quite a bit of crack fic, but Omega 2D's 'Kingdom of Slytherin' dojinshi series is unbeatable on the absurdity front
fanficforensics: @dizzer here's the hashtag for umea u's cool humanities lab #humlab
fanficforensics: @dizzer Searching for 'dojinshi' on the web gets you scanlations, in databases it gets you research on 40-year-old amateur literary zines
fanficforensics: @Kethylia congrats ;))
fanficforensics: @Kethylia I assume you didn't ask for it? :)
fanficforensics: @Kethylia This one http://bit.ly/9cqElK Lots of talk about contents of fanwork instead of just ethnography
fanficforensics: @madelineashby a hatred of cooking pushed me into the cafeteria the second I realized mom was too far away to check if I was really cooking
fanficforensics: @mkmalfoy fabulous, innit. I'd recommend pretty much anything that shows up on TED.
fanficforensics: @prezi Belgian Japanese Studies students chart Japanese WWII naval campaigns in 10 prezis for history project http://bit.ly/8WOTS2
fanficforensics: @PreziSupport Can you tell me the name of the 'title' font in the 'photographer' style, please? I'd like to match it on a page
fanficforensics: A perfect blanket of snow is settling gently over the airport. Rarely has something been so pretty and yet so ominous *crosses fingers*
fanficforensics: Academics are human: they are as greedy, short-sighted and treacherous as everyone else, but... http://bit.ly/IkAI6 NS on price of knowledge
fanficforensics: add status tags to every feed to keep track of things that are finished, that are in draft state, and that need reviewing -too much stuff!
fanficforensics: adding another form to zoho creator to keep track of what nice internet/RL person contributed what idea to research
fanficforensics: Agreed with colleague that I'd just make notes of interesting books during trip to Japan, not buy every single one of 'em right away. Ha ha.
fanficforensics: Amazon's lasted batshittery finally pushed me to try out BookDepository http://bit.ly/5yOj3U . It's awesome
fanficforensics: And repeat after me: using a pseud online does not translate directly into criminal intent or invalid opinions
fanficforensics: And still no het dojinshi featuring Snape, though plenty of gen. Should compare volume of Snape het with that of Snape slash in fics first
fanficforensics: another mail from student with fifty questions on manga. Sent back some links and did NOT say "write your thesis yourself". Nice, right?
fanficforensics: any crossovers in dojinshi? (1 comment)
fanficforensics: Avatar racebending issue - 'Polling "People Against Racebending" for Demographics' http://bit.ly/Fg7U7
fanficforensics: Back from Tokyo. Bought about 125 Harry Potter dojinshi as research samples. Wallet says ouch, but sacrifices must be made for science.
fanficforensics: Big massive multi-fandom fanwork auction help_haiti is on twitter now, check it out @help_haiti_LJ
fanficforensics: Braidotti seminar finished. Was great. Exhausting, though :)
fanficforensics: BTW, all abstracts for the conference at http://bit.ly/7Wm2N0. (Mine ended up having little to do with my actual talk, but oh well) #jskul
fanficforensics: Budding research career is looking up: speaking arrangements in Kyoto and in Sweden, book chapter, lots of advice from knowledgeable people
fanficforensics: But food first. Second session of day 1 (shojo manga) just ended and was rather great, be back in an hour or so. #jskul
fanficforensics: Cool. RT @glynmoody: Britain Loves Wikipedia - And About Time, Too - http://bit.ly/9hJpbP #wikipedia #copyright
fanficforensics: Crazy dj has Lupin miniaturizing Snape with a potion, then sending Harry the potion as a spray so he can have a go too *unsettled*
fanficforensics: Did own presentation on influence of copyright on place of fanworks in comics studies http://prezi.com/_x7wudfrex2d . Went vr well #jskul
fanficforensics: Discussing chapters from 'Precarious life' by Judith Butler today. Must read whole book
fanficforensics: do comparisons with textual fanwork included in paper dojinshi as well?
fanficforensics: Finally learning a bit about queer theory
fanficforensics: Finally making progress on a sensible system to pick representative samples from the bazillion Harry Potter fics out there. Huzzah.
fanficforensics: Finally! RT @japanesestudies Project Muse upgrade: http://bit.ly/6jD421 This means full text access to mechademia
fanficforensics: Finding it extremely hard to suspend disbelief and just go with the story with most dojinshi, and it definitely isn't just the language
fanficforensics: finding links between discrimination in academia and publishing, feminist theory, and interwebs
fanficforensics: Finished list of 100 fanfic samples. Hello, my lovelies, I will have to read you a hundred times in the next few years http://bit.ly/cew48Z
fanficforensics: First impressions of Snapecentric dojinshi: there's practically no het, tons of slash, and Snape is virtually always the uke
fanficforensics: First obvious Disney reference in dojinshi, took ages to find one. (HP people as chars from Peter Pan. Draco as the croc = instant classic.)
fanficforensics: Frustrated with fanwork research methodology development -I'm missing something vital and I *know* it's right in front of my face
fanficforensics: Funny dj has Harry worrying that his dojinshi popularity is being eclipsed with the arrival of 'oyasedai' (parents' generation') dojinshi
fanficforensics: Grant application submitted! It's dead, finally. Finally time to do actual research again.
fanficforensics: Great cleanup of the manga library at uni today, with a bunch of real, live student volunteers! We must be a Serious Library now.
fanficforensics: Great stuff on twitter ea in higher ed- Make "10" louder, or, the amplification of scholarly communication - http://bit.ly/88yuRD #jskul
fanficforensics: Half of it nonsense and none of it in academic lingo yet, but still, not bad for one month of writing
fanficforensics: Has anyone researched spammers' language use? Seriously, the creativity evident in all these hilarious variations on "increase your size"...
fanficforensics: Heard tales of university people getting in trouble with dojinshi, had actual nightmare about it, added mature content warning to site
fanficforensics: how about 'fest'-type dojinshi with numerous short contrubutions by many dojinshika
fanficforensics: http://bit.ly/14VQMd racism in "300" - Without analyzing and critiquing images in pop culture ... we are ignoring the most powerful medi ...
fanficforensics: http://tinyurl.com/omspoy -places where facebook isn't #1 (China, India, vast majority of world, actually) = "pockets of resistance"? Whut?
fanficforensics: I must be missing ten references to other games/manga/etc per dojinshi, only caught the FF one because I read a couple of FF fics once. Ack.
fanficforensics: I was expecting a lot of James/Snape in HP dojinshi, but so much of it? Spotted some Snupin and a Snarry or two, but that's about it
fanficforensics: I'm really starting to wonder about all the media coverage on "herbivorous men" in Japan. Is this an actual development or a media fad?
fanficforensics: I've double-checked this grant application nine million times and am quite ready to just tear it to pieces. Academic jargon, it burns us
fanficforensics: In January seminar of PhD course on feminist theory. Going to take notes on PDFs directly (still haven't found good notetaking workflow)
fanficforensics: intro to manga tweeting at http://manga.jadedragononline.com/?p=917
fanficforensics: It cannot be 10pm already, I was going to watch Black Books! Oh well, did spend the time exploring Zotero. This thing has gotten pretty cool
fanficforensics: Just a few more manga conference tweets, processing last handwritten notes now (handwritten because network went down at some point, eeeeee)
fanficforensics: Just found year-old notes about wanting PhD to be like a treasure hunt. Keep that in mind.
fanficforensics: Karen Hellekson on research ethics for studies that sollicit input from fans http://tinyurl.com/p9adle
fanficforensics: LA Weekly discusses gay romances by female writers http://bit.ly/5wtPXU in an interesting, but problematic http://bit.ly/8aBDyW article.
fanficforensics: Leaving Kyoto for a few days of Nara. Detour to Umeda, Yodobashi Camera and its manifold shiny things. Wish I hadn't brought credit card now
fanficforensics: list what's most often mentioned in dojinshi warnings and why?
fanficforensics: Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education Video on TED.com
fanficforensics: Lost notes on economy being basically a system to satisfy desires. Damn those loose papers, why can't I stick with one note-taking medium?
fanficforensics: Making Light: "Fanfic": force of nature http://tinyurl.com/phc6vh on why the distinction between fic and Literature is baseless (1 comment)
fanficforensics: Manga squee: 'Adekan' has Meiji Japan, mouth-watering art, a twisty story, and two sizzling bishonen leads. Get it. http://naotukiji.main.jp
fanficforensics: Mildly annoyed now -I'm the only person with a laptop in the room, just got pointed at again during talk of how we are placated with gadgets
fanficforensics: More crossover dojinshi! HP meets Final Fantasy as Gilderoy Lockhart's sister Tifa joins the cast.
fanficforensics: Natsume Fusanosuke speaking now, like Pascal about similar visual systems in comics around the world, which may form a 'common' language
fanficforensics: Nearly 200 dojinshi entered, now to select 100 samples. But one dj often contains several stories, so about 50 physical dj would probably do
fanficforensics: New blog post - on racism through sheer ignorance and the Purpose of the humanities http://bit.ly/4zEF9J
fanficforensics: New blog post: speaking at "Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Scholarship on a Global Scale" in two weeks http://bit.ly/5JyPCr
fanficforensics: New blog post: Star Trek fic rec, musings on japanese studies students and handling of Teh Cultural Differences http://tinyurl.com/ln4xrf
fanficforensics: New post: A higher power wants me to talk about yaoi http://tinyurl.com/nsklm9
fanficforensics: New post: Conference "Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Scholarship on a Global Scale" underway http://tinyurl.com/y8c27pr
fanficforensics: New post: Fic/art rec: The Mutant Problem http://tinyurl.com/rdtd74
fanficforensics: New post: Presentation on dojinshi, fan culture, copyright and amateur-professional divide http://tinyurl.com/ya8ru3j
fanficforensics: Now charged with bringing Tina violent pornography for female readers. Will be digging out Potter fan stuff. Good times. #jskul
fanficforensics: Oh, there will be an explanation about the new manga research graduate program of Seika University in a couple of hours. Sweet. #jskul
fanficforensics: One way to simplify fic selection -include only livejournal content (LJ is central to the fandom and is very good with dating stuff)
fanficforensics: Or I could estimate pairing popularity by number of LJ comms/posts/interested users, and pic recced fics based on those percentages
fanficforensics: Pascal Lefèvre (http://bit.ly/5H6hpu, 'PL' from now on) speaking now. "Each 'kind' of comic occupies a different cultural space"
fanficforensics: PL stresses looking for similarities between kinds of comics, but doesn't want a 'classic reductive structuralistic approach'...
fanficforensics: PL: "more international collaborative comparative research on comics media needed, in spite of obstacles such as language"
fanficforensics: Powerful stuff - video that helps you imagine what it's like to function in society as a gay teenager and adult http://bit.ly/cWyTr
fanficforensics: Prepping unfinished data sets on dojinshi and fanfics for publication on website. Research will be 100% open with those data out in the wild
fanficforensics: RB on that dismissive characterization of fans: it's a generational difference, modern fans are far more sophisticated than RB's generation
fanficforensics: RB: foucault: resist from the center if you're in the center, you can only use the master's tools to effectively resist (really?)
fanficforensics: RB: foucault: society mutates from industrial to research-driven information society: power is knowledge, genetic "capital" (semen, eggs)
fanficforensics: RB: levi-strauss: interpretation by gail rubin of work was dead wrong, I'm not arguing for compulsory heteronormativity
fanficforensics: RB: political question via woolf/de beauvoir: what makes us want to be part of a system that excludes us from production of knowledge?
fanficforensics: RB: potestas = power that restricts you, potentia = your level of power/intensity/what you are capable of
fanficforensics: Researching zoomorphism in manga at the moment. That includes all the people wearing cat ears
fanficforensics: Revamping first-year "introduction to Japanese culture and literature" course. More manga and less tanka, we'll see how it works out #jskul
fanficforensics: RT @qikipedia: There’s nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)
fanficforensics: RT @tweetmeme Can A White Woman Be A Womanist? - Womanist Musings http://bit.ly/120cvi
fanficforensics: Second session 'Border-crossing Comics Studies under the conditions of globalization' starting now #jskul
fanficforensics: Sidetracked by Braidotti referring to fans (and pointing to me) as example of people/women just holding up a mirror to 'master'. Objection!
fanficforensics: Slashdot - How common is scientific misconduct? (Pretty common, unsurprisingly) http://tinyurl.com
fanficforensics: Speaking now: Odagiri Hiroshi, (OH) critic of american comics. "Many Japanese universities just use manga as tool of self-promotion" #jskul
fanficforensics: Sucked into snopes.com loop. Was doing so well on conference preparation, too :P
fanficforensics: Talked with the admirable Trina Robbins http://bit.ly/7yTdnW on what comics girls/women generally like to read #jskul
fanficforensics: TED talk - Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success http://bit.ly/xwidV
fanficforensics: The Slanted Screen - documentary on Asian actors in Hollywood http://bit.ly/yWqx
fanficforensics: to do: list Japanese books on fan culture, discuss with Kyoto International Manga Museum people, buy them in Tokyo (best shop?)
fanficforensics: To do: look up involvement of foucault in iranian revolution
fanficforensics: Toying with Google Wave for embedded class notes in drupal. Just what I need in theory, still some technical trouble
fanficforensics: Which more or less satisfies me, will blog on this later. Still a few issues.
fanficforensics: Will be throwing around random dojinshi-related tweets at high speed for another few hours. Just a warning
fanficforensics: Will choose only dj created after "Order of the Phoenix" was published in Japanese, and fics published after OotP came out in English
fanficforensics: Will try to get hold of her during break and explain what fanfic etc actually contains, she's probably just missing a nuance about 'fans'
fanficforensics: Year-old notes suggesting total obsession with 'Freakonomics' at the time. Loved that methodology, probably still do. To re-read
fanficforensics: YES. Finally got access to wireless network in Kyoto Manga Museum -thank you, friendly sysadmin. Will be tweeting sessions now. #jskul
fanficforensics: Yesterday keynote with Thierry Groensteen, who was interesting but said some unimpressive things on gender studies and OEL manga #jskul
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