Digital communication technologies both complexify and help to reveal the dynamics of
human communicative activity and capacity for identity performance. Addressing current …

This article provides a narrative overview of research on online fan practices for language
and literacy learning, use, and identity work. I begin with an introduction to online fan …

Rarely are computing systems developed entirely by members of the communities they
serve, particularly when that community is underrepresented in computing. Archive of Our …

Fandom is generally viewed as an integral part of everyday life which impacts upon how we
form emotional bonds with ourselves and others in a modern, mediated world. Whilst it is …

In today's digital era, increasing numbers of youth around the world learn English outside
classrooms, frequently with the use of technology. This timely book brings together research …

Politics for the Love of Fandom examines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”:
civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan …

This study builds upon work in task-based language teaching and literary studies to explore
the use of fan fiction as a pedagogical tool in a technology-enhanced university foreign …

From amateur creativity to social media status updates, nearly every Internet user is also a
content creator-but who owns that content? Policy, including intellectual property rights, is a …

Contemporary media culture is shaped by technological innovations and the sustained
move of media conglomerates from vertical to horizontal integration. While the concept of the …

Literature Now offers a distinct vision of late-twentieth-and early-twenty-first-century literary
culture. Addressing contemporary literature and the ways we understand its meaning, the …