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Looking for a Communications-AO3 Liaison 26 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
We would like to thank everyone who responded to our previous call for Web Developer Staff and Open Doors Staff. Today, we're excited to announce the opening of applications for: Communications Staf...
OTW Fannews: Who's claiming fanworks? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
Momentum Books covered the usual concerns about authorship in the fanfic age. But they also cited the case of "Jordin B. Williams’ novel Amazingly Broken that has sparked accusations of intense plagia...
OTW Fannews: How to be a fan 21 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
Morgan Davies wrote about the stages of becoming a Teen Wolf fan. "I used to creep downstairs after my parents had gone to sleep to plug my laptop into the dial-up cable in our family room and load al...
OTW Fannews: Recognizing women 18 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
San Diego Comic-Con appeared to be yet another opportunity for some members of the media to notice that female fans exist in large numbers. The Mary Sue discussed a study showing that women dominated ...
OTW Fannews: Fan conventions 17 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
SB Nation published a somewhat bemused summary of a day at MLB Fanfest but concluded that "The Real Baseball Thing has something to do with the act of playing baseball and something to do with the cum...
OTW Fannews: Knowing your rights 14 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Microsoft has been in the news for its copyright decisions in the past few months. Shogun Gamer had a discussion about Microsoft's retraction of a DRM decision that would have limited game buyers' rig...
Volunteer recruiting for Web and Open Doors Committees 12 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
We would like to thank everyone who responded to our previous call for Communications Graphics Volunteers and Tag Wrangling Volunteers. Today, we're excited to announce the opening of applications fo...
OTW Fannews: Fandom spinoffs 11 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
Emma Di Bernardo wrote a post for the online zine Wom*news asking Twilight Fanfiction: Can It Turn Sexism Into Feminism? "The most popular, successful and fastest growing genre in Twilight fanfiction ...
OTW Fannews: Fanfiction around the world 9 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
The Hindu featured an article on writer Shreya Prabhu Jindal who discussed her start in fanfic. "Most of the audience members were eager to know how Shreya, in her early twenties, managed to write a b...
OTW Fannews: Academic takes on fandom 8 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
New York City's Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a presentation on vidding given by former board member Francesca Coppa, titled "Remix Before YouTube." The presentation is on Friday, August 9 at ...
