Transformative Works and Cultures
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Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In #TWC46's first New Currents article, @julianeugarten.bsky.social explores the potential of a suite of natural language processing and machine learning tools to examine power and gender dynamics in fan fiction featuring characters from Greek mythology! Read it here:
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
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November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Opening #TWC46's New Currents on Fans and AI, guest editors @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @ladylark.bsky.social identify potential areas of disruption to contemporary fandom & fan studies arising from AI and suggest what the consequences might be. Read the editorial here:
#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!
Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!
#TWC46's Article section ends with @janpoi.bsky.social's "Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective"! This study of intergenerational music fandom, also looks at the continuation of fannish attachments and practices over time. Read it here:
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October 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#TWC46's Article section ends with @janpoi.bsky.social's "Intergenerational dynamics of children's music fandom: An enculturation perspective"! This study of intergenerational music fandom, also looks at the continuation of fannish attachments and practices over time. Read it here:
For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:
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October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:
In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:
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October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:
For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:
In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:
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October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:
In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Teaching with fandom: Promoting student subject engagement and critical reflection through fan fiction writing
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October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In #TWC46, Jaime W. Roots shares her method for promoting knowledge development and critical reflection in classes through fan fiction writing! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
In #TWC46, Kelsey Cummings's analysis of real person fiction (#RPF) reveals the importance of cultural and political context to RPF in their Article, "Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction"! Read it here:
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October 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In #TWC46, Kelsey Cummings's analysis of real person fiction (#RPF) reveals the importance of cultural and political context to RPF in their Article, "Real enough: Power and politics in real person fiction"! Read it here:
Ye Jiang's article in #TWC46 expands our understanding of the politics of Omegaverse fic by focusing on Chinese fans, whose localization of the genre's norms is complex and progressive. Read "Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction" now:
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October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ye Jiang's article in #TWC46 expands our understanding of the politics of Omegaverse fic by focusing on Chinese fans, whose localization of the genre's norms is complex and progressive. Read "Navigating gender in censored Chinese A/B/O fiction" now:
Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
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October 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46:
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October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46:
Next up in #TWC46, Taylor Drake's analyzes how fans with eating disorders negotiate anti-anorexia messaging in media in "Disordered eating, disordered reading: Wintergirls and the fannish practices of pro-ana"! Read it here:
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September 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Next up in #TWC46, Taylor Drake's analyzes how fans with eating disorders negotiate anti-anorexia messaging in media in "Disordered eating, disordered reading: Wintergirls and the fannish practices of pro-ana"! Read it here:
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*NOT* about the game.
In the new issue of @journal.transformativeworks.org
"...this discourse analysis of otaku users' experiences with Waifu Labs, an AI anime portrait generator, suggests an alternative perspective on the relationships between human and AI."
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
In the new issue of @journal.transformativeworks.org
"...this discourse analysis of otaku users' experiences with Waifu Labs, an AI anime portrait generator, suggests an alternative perspective on the relationships between human and AI."
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal
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September 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
*NOT* about the game.
In the new issue of @journal.transformativeworks.org
"...this discourse analysis of otaku users' experiences with Waifu Labs, an AI anime portrait generator, suggests an alternative perspective on the relationships between human and AI."
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
In the new issue of @journal.transformativeworks.org
"...this discourse analysis of otaku users' experiences with Waifu Labs, an AI anime portrait generator, suggests an alternative perspective on the relationships between human and AI."
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
The first Article in #TWC46, by @takakusa.bsky.social, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the fannish lives of anime song fans in Japan, highlighting the ways that in-person activities are often crucial to fans' social and mental wellbeing. Read it here:
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September 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The first Article in #TWC46, by @takakusa.bsky.social, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the fannish lives of anime song fans in Japan, highlighting the ways that in-person activities are often crucial to fans' social and mental wellbeing. Read it here:
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My first journal article has officially been published! 🎉
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September 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My first journal article has officially been published! 🎉
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September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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In the opening editorial for #TWC46, coeditors @melstanfill.bsky.social and Poe Johnson focus on diversifying "the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work" and aim to "make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) & troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations"! Read more:
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September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In the opening editorial for #TWC46, coeditors @melstanfill.bsky.social and Poe Johnson focus on diversifying "the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work" and aim to "make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) & troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations"! Read more:
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My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!
I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies
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September 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My lovely friend Naomi Jacobs (@ladylark.bsky.social) and I wanted to explore the repercussions of the new-found prevalence of AI on fans, fandom and fan studies. Some excellent scholars contributed articles to a special section of @journal.transformativeworks.org, which is out now! Enjoy!
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Proud to see my article 'Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction' in @journal.transformativeworks.org, my favorite academic journal.
Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
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Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
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Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction
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September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Proud to see my article 'Using Riveter to map gendered power dynamics in Hades/Persephone fan fiction' in @journal.transformativeworks.org, my favorite academic journal.
Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
Want to know how fanfiction portrays power dynamics between these two? Read on!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
📣 #TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC46, our annual general issue! This issue, however, holds some new and exciting features. Dig in at this link: buff.ly/EHJTStO
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September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📣 #TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC46, our annual general issue! This issue, however, holds some new and exciting features. Dig in at this link: buff.ly/EHJTStO