Jackie, I love this vid because it exemplifies for me the ability of vids to make sense with little or no knowledge of the source text. You point out that familiarity with and love for show and song mutually enhance and create something larger than both, ...
For a while there, we joked about Lim as being Spektor's secret PR person, because her very first vid was also to a Spektor song (this vid, however, definitely isn't an introductory vid, deeply embedded as it is in not only a particular shipper ...
Cyborganize, yes, I think you're right that the vid foregrounds insiderness, especially in the way it not only requires a breadth of references but also a certain depth (after all, even having seen many of the shows it took me a while to recognize wh ...
Jackie, yes, and the cool thing is that this is exactly what we do in fan discourses, right? We filter hours of TV shows into moments that we cherish, take out and behold again and again. I mean, they're cliched and overvidded for a reason. Using the ...
Alexis, that's it, I think: the vid is as layered as fandom itself, where lots of people with vastly different backgrounds and needs and interests can come and bring to/take away vastly different things. One of the things that strikes me is that I� ...
Just a quick addendum/correction to your comments on Wayback Machine. I was surprised (positively for myself, horrified for my research:) that you can indeed retroactively remove material from Wayback: http://archive.org/about/exclude.php describes that ...
Matthew, I think the intersection between fannish and academic pursuits is an important though fraught one. Henry Jenkins' blog series last summer on the issue (http://acafanconvo.dreamwidth.org/) certainly addressed some of the issues, but it� ...
Well, as we're both working on our project together (you in the cold North, me in the warm South:), we certainly are an example, I'd argue of it being both, personal and professional. But, yes, I actually agree with you on the extraneous work th ...
are more successful online academic communities tied to love as well as work? Sarah, I think this might hit the nail on the head. I mean, we all to some degree love what we do, and it is only with love (and a very strong superego:) that we ever make it t ...
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Jackie, I love this vid
For a while there, we joked
Cyborganize, yes, I think
Jackie, yes, and the cool
Alexis, that's it, I think:
Wayback can be taught to forget
Matthew, I think the
Well, as we're both working
are more successful online
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