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Animated Fan Production in the Anime Fandom
Introduction This article is an attempt to organize thoughts around Otakon 2008′s epic opening animation as well as the recent Global Shinkai Day over at Crunchyroll. Brief History of Fan Animation...
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Serendipity, or Twitter and the Narrative of Rhetoric
warning, love via neoliminal on Flickr The Internet accelerates serendipity. So says my good friend and colleague Diana Kimball. The more I write and think about the Internet, the more I believe her...
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Girugamesh, Sakura-Con, & Copywhat?
Since Sakura-con‘s release of their promotional commercial to YouTube, a lot of buzz, both positive and negative, has swept across the Internet. On top of the initial reactions in pure text (such as...
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Internet Culture Research: New (?) Thoughts on Memes
This article is highly experimental and has been published merely as a thought-provoking piece; therefore, please forgive any rambling that takes place throughout. – The Management Ever since I got...
View ArticleDoes the American Anime Fandom Need Bloggers?
I’ve had this short interview with Shoko Nakagawa at Anime Expo 2008 from Anime Genesis in my Firefox tab queue for a number of weeks, but I finally got around to clicking play this evening. If...
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Talkin’ About Anime at the Open Video Conference
Been pretty busy this week (as evidenced by the lack of updates). Right now, I’m done in New York, prepping for the Open Video Conference, being held at NYU Law. I’ll be presenting a talk on Saturday...
View ArticleA New Perspective on Viral Videos: FCKH8
How does your video spread around the internet? Do people talk about it? Do they share links via email? Do they post it on Facebook? Or… Do they upload it? Are you one of those fuckwads who has a...
View ArticlePhD in Internet
There’s been a clear lack of updates for a while: sorry about that, just trying to get my Ph.D. In reality, I’ve dug a hole for studying the Internet and digital culture at the Annenberg School for...
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Reflections of a “Book Pirate”
Or, The Unintentional Consequences of Impersonal Social Media Systems tl;dr – I was accused of being a book pirate for returning a book. (Picture of email below.) Throughout the past semester — the...
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Experiments in Mobile Internet Culture
Indie Game: The Movie, a film I helped fund on Kickstarter. Playing around with the WordPress app for Android. Hopefully this will inspire smaller, thought-laden posts. EDIT, 5 seconds later: Had to...
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