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I Read A Book: Laina Dawes’ What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life...

-By Raizel Liebler If you are a fan, you should read Laina Dawes‘ What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal. Seriously. Yes, if you happen to sit in the middle of...

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I Read A Book: Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the...

Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work is an interesting book about the ways recording artists have been treated by California and federal law, especially regarding...

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I Read A Book: Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the...

By Raizel Liebler At the point that it seems like everything has been franchised in media, from public domain works like Sherlock Holmes, to Star Wars, to Angry Birds. But the cultural production —...

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I Read a Book: Making is Connecting – The Social Meaning of Creativity, from...

by Keidra Chaney The “Maker” Movement has been gaining a lot of steam in the past couple of years as the logical evolution of the Internet revolution, but making stuff for the Internet still doesn’t...

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TLF Read A Book: Summertime Science Reading 2013

by Raizel Liebler Rare is high-quality writing about science for non-scientists. I would read all of these books I recommend in this series again, something I rarely do. Most summer reading lists...

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Storm of the X-Men : The Learned Fangirl Hall of Fame

by TLF writers and friends In what we expect to be a very rare feature, TLF will induct iconic pop-culture characters into our Hall of Fame. These are characters that have made an indelible impact on...

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I Read A Book: Christine R. Yano’s Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek...

by Raizel Liebler State of the world kawaii! One of the inspirations for our starting this blog was trying to explain Japanese culture, especially anime and Hello Kitty to others, even those that...

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I Read A Book: Ian Condry’s The Soul of Anime

By Keidra Chaney Few fandoms are as collaborative and interactive as anime fandom. While it is perfectly acceptable to simply watch an anime series, there are traditionally also a multitude of options...

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I Read A Book: Orly Lobel’s Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to...

by Raizel Liebler Orly Lobel’s book Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding (Yale University Press 2013) is game changing. I don’t say this lightly, but if...

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I Read A Book: Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World

by Keidra Chaney The publication of Textual Poachers in 1992 opened the door of acceptance for an academic study of fan communities and transformative works, and there’s been a multitude of articles,...

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I Read A Book:Limor Shifman’s Memes in Digital Culture

by Raizel Liebler Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman is another great addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. This book doesn’t dive the deepest, but it lays out all of the...

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Comics Review: The Promise and Problems of Harley Quinn

By Nicole Keating I had been ignoring the New 52 iteration of Harley Quinn.  Not because I don’t like Harley.  Au contraire, puddin’!  Since I laid eyes on her, Dr. Harleen Quinzel alias Harley Quinn...

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I Read A Book: danah boyd’s It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked...

danah boyd’s It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens is one of the most important books ever on online culture, teens, and the ways societal fears impact lives. It should be read by...

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I Read A Book: The Korean Popular Culture Reader

By Raizel Liebler Kyung Hyun Kim & Youngmin Choe’s edited collection of academic essays, The Korean Popular Culture Reader is an important entry into popular culture and Asian cultural criticism....

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What would Pippi Longstocking Do?

by Vivian Obarski When I grow up, I want to be Pippi Longstocking. I don’t know if I can pull off the fire-red braids that stick straight out, or live in a ramshackle house with a horse on the porch...

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How Becoming a Parent Changed Me as a Fangirl

By Corrin Bennett – Kill I am a sci-fi/fantasy nerd. I have read every book that Isaac Asimov has written (Nightfall is my favorite). I have plowed my way through 10-volume-plus epic fantasy series...

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I Read A Book: Youna Kim’s The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global

by Raizel Liebler Youna Kim’s The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013) is another excellent addition to the growing corpus of academic books on Korean culture as shared worldwide that are written...

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I Read A Book: Debora Halbert’s The State of Copyright: the complex...

by Raizel Liebler Debora Halbert’s The State of Copyright: the complex relationship of cultural creation in a globalized world is an excellent academic entry to the study of the impact of copyright on...

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“The Ballad Is A History” The Eerie and Poetic Worldbuilding of Image’s...

by Nicole Keating My comic-reading history started at age 15. A little later than most, I’ll admit, and I envy my fellows who have been enjoying comic books and graphic novels from childhood. Who had...

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Comics Review – Seconds

by Jordan Dinwiddie – Guest Writer They say the second effort is the hardest. Well, how about the eighth for Bryan Lee O’Malley?  Bringing us his follow-up to the massively popular Scott Pilgrim...

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