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Episode 93: User-Generated Content
What is exploitative—and what is just fans having fun?
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Audio, show notes, and transcripts for the full back catalog of the podcast
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Episode 92: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 3
Listener mail on future fandom platforms, TV revivals, happy endings, and more.
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Episode 91: Casey Fiesler
An information science professor on platforms, research ethics, and Tumblr’s algorithms.
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Episode 90: The Year In Fandom 2018
Some of the biggest fandom trends in 2018, from Tumblr to purity culture to capitalism.
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Episode 89: Rukmini Pande
The fan studies scholar discusses race, fandom, and her book Squee From the Margins.
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Episode 88: Kenyatta Cheese
A co-founder of Everybody At Once on the ways the entertainment industry understands fandom.
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Episode 87: What We Discourse About When We Discourse About the Discourse
Responses to The Discourse Trilogy™, from historical precedents to broader cultural connections.
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Episode 86: The Money Question
The Discourse Trilogy™ Part 3: On the monetization of fanfiction, from AO3 to Wattpad.
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Episode 85: Age and Fandom
The Discourse Trilogy™ Part 2: On ageism, from both mainstream culture and within fandom.
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Episode 84: Purity Culture
The Discourse Trilogy™ Part 1: On morality in fan conversations, from antis to stans.
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Episode 83: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 2
Listener mail on real person fiction, queer representation, fandom misogyny, and more.
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Episode 82: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
The writer, producer, and TV executive on fan/creator interaction from both sides of the divide.