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OTW Fannews: Remembering the past
Dil English At The Atlantic, Courtney Klauser discussed her education in social networks thanks to fandom. "Looking back, I most miss the personal anonymity; an online existence without photography or...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Enabled
Dil English At Aeon Michelle Nijhuis discusses genderswapping with her daughter. "When I first wrote about my daughter’s Hobbit genderswap, many people said that fanfiction writers were way ahead of...
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OTW Fannews: Terms in Use
Dil English As fandom has become more visible, the terms it uses have spread out into new areas. At this point various bands have written songs titled "Fan fiction" and Australian musician Geoffrey...
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Dil English The Wall Street Journal wrote about different fandom activities on different social media platforms. "[T]he CW is trying just about everything in social media. Interestingly, once its fans...
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OTW Fannews: Learning from Fanfic
Dil English Technology Tell looked at what fanfiction told them about character popularity in Dragon Age. "The proof is in the sorting. I started my search over at An Archive of Our Own. It has a...
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OTW Fannews: Book Fandom End to End
Dil English At The New Statesman, Elizabeth Minkel discussed book fandoms and the importance of small presses. "The fan who gets hired to make the thing he’s obsessed with has its own TV Trope: 'the...
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OTW Fannews: Commercial Exploits
Dil English Many fans of Fall Out Boy launched a petition to protest a proposed event by podcaster Jensen Karp which would revolve around reading "the most ridiculous REAL fanfiction about them on the...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Advice
Dil English One fanfiction reader turned writer based on his wife's advice as reported by Houma Today. "Nearly 15 years ago, Caldwell discovered online discussion boards and began reading fan...
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OTW Fannews: Fanficcers for Hire
Dil English Westword featured a story on another app targeted to fandom for content aggregation. It allows users to create separate collections, or 'nests', for different fandom content. Its creator...
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OTW Fannews: Balance of Power
Dil English Gamasutra hosted a post about the preservation of gaming history."The second event – the most relevant and sadly the one that got less coverage – was that EFF made a petition to the U.S....
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OTW Guest Post: Donna Davies
Dil English From time to time, the OTW will be hosting guest posts on our OTW News accounts. These guests will be providing an outside perspective on the OTW or aspects of fandom where our projects may...
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OTW Joins Save The Link
Dil English The OTW is proud to join the Save The Link campaign. The campaign, led by Open Media International, stands for the proposition that linking is the foundation of the Web and is essential to...
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
Dil English In honour of this year's SysAdmin Day, the OTW would like to salute system administrators everywhere for their hard work! We'd especially like to thank our own staff for the work they do to...
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OTW Fannews: Staying Vigilant
Dil English The Japan News posted a story about how a Trans-Pacific Partnership crackdown could affect fanfiction publishing. "[T]he 12 nations engaged in the TPP negotiations are building a consensus...
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OTW Fannews: OTW Sightings
Dil English Members of OTW's Legal Committee have proposed panels for next year's South By Southwest (SXSW) conference on fair use and fandom. They are asking for fans to support the inclusion of these...
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Save the Link Needs Your Voice
Dil English As we announced in July, the OTW has partnered with the Save the Link coalition in an effort to prevent countries around the world from creating laws that would punish online services for...
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OTW Fannews: Coming Attractions
Dil English Both the Wall Street Journal and The Global Timeswrote about China's approach to fanworks and intellectual property. The Journal reported on Alibaba Pictures' plans to "no longer hire...
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