Francesca Coppa
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English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
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Hot off the presses - Theatre Fandom, edited by me,
@matt-hills.bsky.social
&
@kirstysedgman.bsky.social
and featuring a collection of terrific essays. U Iowa Press 2025! (The two sides of my career have finally connected! \o/ Life makes sense now! :D)
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Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
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Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
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Dr. Suzanne Scott
22 days ago
Oh look, another āAll fans of (insert franchise) are dudesā clickbait article has dropped, which means itās time to give away a couple of copies of my book āFake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry.ā Comment below if you would like to be entered into this raffle!
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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class
29 days ago
For the crowd who STILL thinks activism cannot be absurd if it is to be effective, may I remind you that ACT UPāperhaps the most effective activist group in US history not just on AIDS but on medicine in generalāonce covered Sen. Jesse Helmsās house with with a giant condom
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Emily "Babe" St. James
29 days ago
Love that we have somehow reclaimed cartoon frogs???????
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Silky
29 days ago
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Tim Onion
29 days ago
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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The History on Film Podcast
about 1 month ago
Don't forget to check out today's brand new episode of
#HoFCast
all about Monty Python! Mini-trailer below, but you can find this week's episode (as well as our entire archive) ad-free on the podcast app of your choice!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9e...
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Season 2, Episode 4 Mini Trailer- "Jeffery Weinstock's Flying Circus" with Jeffery Weinstock
YouTube video by History on Film Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9e5MrcMxE&t=46s
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Just to say, I thought it was fantastic. Genuinely fantastic. Terrific acting all around & the set is genius. Iām so so so glad I saw it.
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about 2 months ago
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What can I say? Made for me! Take my money! Gen X represent!
about 2 months ago
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Organization for Transformative Works
about 2 months ago
Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle
#AO3
tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The
#OTW
is Recruiting!
otw-news.org/w8thejrv
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I had a delightful conversation with the author of this. What I didnāt realize is that this sort of bot-making can be an art: there are better and worse ones, as in fic or art.
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about 2 months ago
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I had a great conversation with Precious Fondren for this article - check it out!
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The Show Was Cringe, but This Was the Summer We All Turned Pretty
How the teen drama became the most talked-about series of the last few months.
https://typesetbrooklyn.com/articles/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-finale-episode
about 2 months ago
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Skot Armstrong
2 months ago
āMy idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk
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Book Notification
2 months ago
#TheSummerWar
by
@naominovik.bsky.social
(
#NewYorkTimesBestsellingAuthor
;
#Standalone
) A heartfelt story about a young witch who accidentally curses her brother to live without love and must find a way to undo the damage before itās too late. (2/5)
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Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people:
mdpi.com/books/reprin...
#mdpi
via @MDPI
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https://mdpi.com/books/reprint/11468-the-past-present-and-future-of-fan-fiction
2 months ago
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Wow - banner day for fan studies really; I forgot that the latest TWC also just dropped. Issue 46!!! Few academic journals have ever run so consistently and well - and on time!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
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TWC No. 46 released | Transformative Works and Cultures
https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/169
2 months ago
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Huey
2 months ago
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight? Buddy, I ain't got that kinda time. Pick one.
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Transformative work of the day, 18th c edition!
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2 months ago
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New Book on Open Access and Publishing:
mailchi.mp/umich/now-av...
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New Book on Open Access and Publishing
https://mailchi.mp/umich/now-available-publishing-beyond-the-market
2 months ago
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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James Youngman
3 months ago
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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Mom Rock Aficionado šµšøš³ļøāš
almost 2 years ago
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.
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Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading!
newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/n...
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New Theater Books for Summer Reading
Below is a manageable list of a dozen theater books ā recently published or soon to beā that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism, three novā¦
https://newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/new-theater-books-for-summer-reading-3/
6 months ago
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Rebecca Tushnet
6 months ago
Transformative work of the day, mandatory repost edition
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John Scalzi
6 months ago
Not weird, plus we've already seen the effects of people outsourcing their thinking to others. "AI" doesn't even think.
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans. It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free. This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
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The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt | Robert Reich
Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t7lO0TlwUZw
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Hot off the presses - Theatre Fandom, edited by me,
@matt-hills.bsky.social
&
@kirstysedgman.bsky.social
and featuring a collection of terrific essays. U Iowa Press 2025! (The two sides of my career have finally connected! \o/ Life makes sense now! :D)
6 months ago
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Transformative Works and Cultures
11 months ago
The Symposium section of
#TWC44
begins with
@fcoppa.bsky.social
essay which imagines how fan studies theory could be less centered on whiteness and more attentive to the lived experiences of Black female fans, especially in vidding communities. Read it today:
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Vidding and the oppositional gaze: The pleasures of critique | Transformative Works and Cultures
What's the same and what's different about a fan studies field built on bell hooks rather than on Henry Jenkins, Constance Penley, or Lisa Lewis? As a visual art practice, vidding in particular wouldā¦
https://buff.ly/3ZOFczy
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Transformative Works and Cultures
9 months ago
"Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding" by
@fcoppa.bsky.social
comes in at #7 on the
#TWCHits
list with a whopping 56K views! This Article was published in our first ever volume,
#TWC01
, back in 2008! Read it here:
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Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding | Transformative Works and Cultures
This paper argues that the practices and aesthetics of vidding were structured by the relationship of Star Trekās female fans to that particular televisual text. Star Trek fandom was the crucibleā¦
https://buff.ly/41iVTFa
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JDH Doveton
8 months ago
@fcoppa.bsky.social
wake up, the corporate accounts have discovered vidding.
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict
11 months ago
A cheery, respectful article about A Wonderful Time of Year, by
@elizabethminkel.bsky.social
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/col...
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The Yuletide Fanfiction Exchange Is a Holiday Marvel
For two decades, fans have been waking up on Christmas morning to custom, obsession-feeding gifts from strangers.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-yuletide-fanfiction-exchange
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Chris Warren
12 months ago
This is my school (Brooklyn College, CUNY). In the classroom we can feel this "propelling" action every semester. It's incredible how the value CUNY colleges provide the state and the nation seems invisible to those with the power to maintain and grease those propellers.
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Sight and Sound magazine
12 months ago
Sight and Sound magazine is now on Bluesky! We will be announcing the results of our 2024 Films of the Year poll here, this Friday
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Transformative Works and Cultures
12 months ago
We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Fans of Color Prize Winner is Osarugue Otebele! Her article, āThe (anti)fan is black: Consumption, resistance, and black K-pop fan vigil labor,ā will be published in our upcoming special issue "Centering Blackness in Fan Studies" on December 15th!
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Benny Feldman šŖøš«§š
12 months ago
For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new
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Dan Maier
12 months ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
about 1 year ago
so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex
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act.boldprogressives.org/survey/Heroe...
This one is THIS SUNDAY, Sept 8, 2024!
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RSVP for the #Heroes4Harris livestream here!
Register for the huge #Heroes4Harris event this Sunday! Join the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and a slew of SURPRISE celebrity guests known for playing heroes on screen in a massive online event to support Kam...
https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/Heroes4Harris/
about 1 year ago
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Morgan Dawn
about 1 year ago
geeks & nerds for HARRIS HOSTED BY LYNDA CARTER with Fan Activist Sabrina Cartan TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 8 PM ET (5 PM PT) RSVP for the free livestream at
Geeks.ForHarris.org
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Anne Tifa
about 1 year ago
thinking about forgotten computer sounds we no longer hear: ⢠the grinding noise of a defragmenting hard drive ⢠the BZWOMM of the monitor degauss button ⢠the squeal of an ejecting floppy drive ⢠the crackle of static as you switch off a CRT monitor ⢠the horrifying shriek of a dot matrix printer
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It me: How young is too young for anti-aging? The āSephora Kidsā debate we need to have
www.reckon.news/honey/2024/0...
I note that *social media does not have to be like this!*
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How young is too young for anti-aging? The āSephora Kidsā debate we need to have
The viral beauty trend is opening the doors on needed discussions around age and the impact of social media on young girls.
https://www.reckon.news/honey/2024/01/how-young-is-too-young-for-anti-aging-the-sephora-kids-debate-we-need-to-have.html
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Coming soon to NYC
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton
A nice young man- Sloane- arrives to rent a room in a family home. But this isn't a normal family. Sloane isn't just any nice young man....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entertaining-mr-sloane-by-joe-orton-tickets-781105045217?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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David M. Perry
almost 2 years ago
If I were a New York Times education reporter, Iād cover this, really looking at the consequences for students in New York City.
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Queens College Lays Off 26 Professors Two Weeks Before Spring Semester - Queens Ledger
by Charlie Finnerty and Celia Bernhardt |
[email protected]
Administrative leadership at Queens College CUNY informed faculty Wednesday that they would not reappoint 26 full-time substitute profes...
https://queensledger.com/2024/01/11/queens-college-lays-off-26-professors-two-weeks-before-spring-semester/?fbclid=IwAR1ZMnRaOFJYQXUKyVr1wKSnKtSzoYDRknyxRwyR6fIX3O4t1K8hloY3N1c_aem_ATGPY9ncBonlboESeshP1hrk43RzgsHnxe3yZssNFbDYl9gN4yx5IdPASEQJeq05xLw
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
almost 2 years ago
Thanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. Cory Doctorow's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives.
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2023 Word of the Year Is āEnshittificationā ā American Dialect Society
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
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SO honored that my book Vidding: A History is a finalist for the ACLS's Open Access Book Prize!! Thanks to UMichican Press who're the BEST & most supportive editors/publishers. Thanks also to Muhlenberg College for supporting my work & to my student (now alumni) team and to ALL THE VIDDERS. <3 <3
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ACLS Names Finalists for 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards
ACLS is pleased to announce 10 finalists for the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards.
https://www.acls.org/news/2024-finalists-acls-open-access-book-prizes-and-arcadia-open-access-publishing-awards/
almost 2 years ago
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Cecilia Tan
almost 2 years ago
Join us for a free Zoom event, the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp," Ann Bannon, in conversation with the maven of erotic sf/fantasy, Cecilia Tan! The University of Illinois rare books library is bringing us together for a one-of-a-kind discussion!
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