Transformative Works and Cultures

Description

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an online-only Gold Open Access international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and transformative works, broadly conceived. See Focus and Scope for more details.

TWC publishes five main sections: Theory and Praxis present peer-reviewed academic essays that analyze fan works and communities within cultural and theoretical frameworks. Symposium offers shorter editorially reviewed essays on fan related issues. We especially invite fans to contribute their ideas and viewpoints at Symposium. Interviews showcases interviews with interesting people in academia, media industry, or fandom, and Reviews presents relevant current book reviews.

For current and former issues, see our archive. Please feel free to register as reader, author, and reviewer. For comments or inquiries, please contact the editor.




Board

Nancy Baym, U of Kansas - Rebecca Black, UC Irvine - Will Brooker, Kingston U - Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca U - Wendy Chun, Brown U - Melissa Click, U of Missouri - Abigail De Kosnik, UC Berkeley - Paul Draper, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith U - Catherine Driscoll, U of Sydney - Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona C - Sam Ford, Convergence Culture Consortium - Jonathan Gray, Fordham U - Judith Halberstam, USC - C. Lee Harrington, Miami U - Heather Hendershot, City U of New York - Matt Hills, Cardiff U - Henry Jenkins, MIT - Derek Johnson, U of Wisconsin - Roz Kaveney, Independent - Derek Kompare, Southern Methodist U - Anne Kustritz, Macalaster C - Elana Levine, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Geoffrey Long, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab - Mark McLelland, U of Wollongong - Farah Mendlesohn, Middlesex U - Helen Merrick, Curtin U of Technology - Jason Mittell, Middlebury C - Lori Morimoto, Indiana U - Roberta Pearson, U of Nottingham - Sheenagh Pugh, U of Glamorgan - Aswin Punathambekar, U of Michigan - Bob Rehak, Swarthmore C - Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M-Commerce - Sharon Ross, Columbia C Chicago - Cornel Sandvoss, U of Surrey - Avi Santo, Old Dominion - Louisa Stein, San Diego State U - Catherine Tosenberger, U of Winnipeg

Announcements

 

Special issue: Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (Summer 2011)

  
We invite submissions to a special issue on race and ethnicity in fandom guest edited by Sarah Gatson (Texas A&M University) and Robin Reid (Texas A&M University–Commerce). Contributions will focus on not only analyzing but also confronting hierarchies of race and ethnicity and their relationship to gender, sexuality, class, and disability.

The full text of the CFP is available after the jump. You may also download PDFs of the CFP as US letter or as A4.		 More...
 

TWC releases general cfp

  
We have created a new general call for papers, updated with the latest guidelines. Please download the PDFs as US letter or European A4.

Feel free to print out and distribute widely!		 More...
 

No. 2 released

  
TWC has just released its second issue! Read the PDFs of our full press release as US letter or A4.

We are already planning the upcoming issues. Besides a general issue for fall 2009, we are soliciting for two special issues.

"Saving People, Hunting Things" is guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger and planned for spring 2010 (call for papers here).

"Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is guest edited by Nancy Reagin and Anne Rubenstein and planned for spring 2011 (call for papers here).

Click on the link to read the full text of our press release.		 More...
 

Special Issue: Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Spring 2011)

  
This special issue, guest edited by Nancy Reagin, Pace University, and Anne Rubenstein, York University, will focus on the rich history of fans and their engagement with a variety of objects of fandom.

Click on the link to read the full text of the call for papers. A .pdf is available sized for US Letter–sized paper here.		 More...
 

Special Issue: *Supernatural* (Spring 2010)

  
We invite submissions for a special issue on the CW television series Supernatural guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger. We are interested in essays concerning every aspect of the show, but especially in studies of Supernatural fandom and fan culture. More...
 
 
More Announcements...

Vol 2 (2009)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Games as transformative works HTML
Rebecca Carlson

Praxis

The Army rolls through Indianapolis: Fieldwork at the Virtual Army Experience Abstract HTML
Robertson Allen
"Too Human" versus the enthusiast press: Video game journalists as mediators of commodity value Abstract HTML
Rebecca Carlson
The everyday lives of video game developers: Experimentally understanding underlying systems/structures Abstract HTML
Casey O'Donnell
Social dimensions of expertise in "World of Warcraft" players Abstract HTML
Mark Chen
The friends that game together: A folkloric expansion of textual poaching to genre farming for socialization in tabletop role-playing games Abstract HTML
Michael Robert Underwood
“Once more a kingly quest”: Fan games and the classic adventure genre Abstract HTML
Anastasia Marie Salter
Endless loop: A brief history of chiptunes Abstract HTML
Kevin Driscoll, Joshua Diaz

Symposium

Maps of many worlds: Remembering computer game fandom in the 1980s HTML
Will Brooker
Game over: Asian Americans and video game representation HTML
Thien-bao Thuc Phi
Intrinsic motivation: "flOw," video games, and participatory culture HTML
Braxton Soderman
"Dungeons & Dragons": The gamers are revolting! HTML
Rebecca Bryant
An examination of living through enjoyment: Live-action role-play HTML
Amanda Odom
The birth of a community, the death of the win: Player production of the "Middle-earth Collectible Card Game" HTML
Joe Bisz
Playing Sue HTML
Julia Beck, Frauke Herrling

Interview

Interview with Paul Marino HTML
Geoffrey Long
Interview with Doris C. Rusch HTML
Clara Fernández-Vara
Interview with Tony O’Driscoll HTML
TWC Editor
Diane E. Levin: Child's play as transformative work HTML
TWC Editor

Review

"Second person: Role-playing and story in games and playable media," edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin HTML
John Finlay Kerr
"Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New perspectives on gender and gaming," edited by Yasmin B. Kafai et al. HTML
Gina Serafin-Persson


Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.