Our overview of #TWC42 is complete! What did y'all think? Any favorite pieces, or predictions on which might make most-cited lists of the future?

Closing out #TWC42 , Rachel Loewen engaged in an analysis of three Doctor Who Covid-19 videos featuring Jodie Whittaker & a discussion of how fans may have used these videos for pandemic engagement for the Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) conference! See it here: bit.ly/4dBQYDo

Closing out this subsection of #TWC42 Articles is Amber Moore's article 'Analyzing an Archive of Allyish Distributed Mentorship in Speak Fan Fiction Comments and Reviews.' Moore theorizes the term 'allyish distributed mentorship' in this must-read: bit.ly/4aA0ZPp

Huge thanks to #TWC42 editors Maria K. Albert🌤, PhD and effie sapuridis, and article authors Welmoed Wagenaar, David Kocik, Celeste Oon and camille butera ✨🌿 for their wonderful reflections! 🌟

Closing out the Articles section of #TWC42 , Irissa Cisternino positions video game livestreaming as a novel form of fan production & considers the extant literature on streaming in order to locate critical gaps in the scholarly conversation! Read it here: bit.ly/4d1r5wF

Next in #TWC42 , Lin Zhang investigates how boys' love (BL) content, particularly live-action adaptations of BL web novels, occupies a fraught position in Chinese popular culture. Read 'Boys’ love in the Chinese platformization of cultural production' here: bit.ly/3Q1KaoC

Back at it with our last 'architecture' #TWC 42 article! Rhea Vichot explores the revival of Japanese city pop music and the new fandom that emerged around it in the late 201o via a thematic analysis of Reddit and YouTube. Read here: bit.ly/3VSdUHU #OTW #TWC

In #TWC42 , Francesca Coppa's 'Vidding: A History' is reviewed by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard. Though he notes some weaknesses, such as the lack of music analysis, he recommends the monograph to those interested in fan history, fan vids, and fan editing! Read here: bit.ly/3UtfiP1

#TWC42 's next Symposium piece dips into #Tolkien fandom and the fading of fanfiction archives. Read Dawn Walls-Thumma (she/her)'s 'The fading of the elves: Techno-volunteerism and the disappearance of Tolkien fan fiction archives' here: bit.ly/4b971qs

Martyna Szczepaniak presents the quantitative differences in the content of author's notes in Polish #HarryPotter fan fiction on #FFNet and #Ao3 for #TWC42 in 'The differences between author’s notes on FanFiction.net and AO3'! Read it here: bit.ly/4a1vzAG

#TWC42 also features submissions from the 2023 Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) conference! Naomi Jacobs, Katherine Crighton, & Shivhan Szabo explore emotional responses & creative resonances in communal multimedia storytelling, using Twine to create a text-based game. bit.ly/3wyRRvK

Next, Muxin Zhang explores the link between the rise of #Kpop fan cams in South Korea and the success of their use in North America. Zhang links this success to the idol's passivity. Read their #TWC42 Symposium piece here: bit.ly/3JKUMEC

Closing out the #TWC42 Symposium section, Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier discusses how the strikes in Hollywood led to talks about fan labor in ''One day longer, one day stronger': Online platforms, fan support and the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes'. Read here: bit.ly/4a6tpzt

Our final book review is by Axel-Nathaniel Rose who reviews Line's 'Mediatized fan play: Moods, modes and dark play in networked communities' in #TWC42 ! Read it here: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/…

The “community” category of Articles in #TWC 42 begins with Welmoed Wagenaar’s “Discord as a Fandom Platform” which considers #Discord as a “playground” for fans! Read it here: bit.ly/3UapKfx #TWC #OTW

Our final category of article in #TWC42 is 'power'. In 'Censorship on Japanese Anime Imported into Mainland China,' Jionghao Liu & Ling Yang use #Bilibili as a case study to examine the censorship of Japanese #anime in Chinese contexts! Read it here: bit.ly/3Q0pKfz

Next in #TWC42 , Sourojit Ghogh & Cecilia Aragon consider the quintessential fandom figure of the #lurker in 'Leveraging community support and platform affordances on a path to more active participation: A study of online fan fiction communities'! Read it here: bit.ly/4ato2LJ

In #TWC42 's first Symposium piece, Yvonne Gonzales & Celeste Oon engage in a conversation which sees them grappling with the interactions, or lack thereof, between their online selves & real-life selves. Read their academic dialogue here: bit.ly/49RDfFk

In 'Fandom and the Ethics of World-Making: Building Spaces for Belonging on BobaBoard,' Paul Ocone takes an in-depth look at #BobaBoard for #TWC 42 ! Read it at: bit.ly/43ZieaE #TWC #OTW

Matt Griffin and Greg Loring-Albright consider the platformer video game #AHatInTime as a case study in nostalgia, ideology, and (re)construction of community values in 'Platforming the Past: Nostalgia, Video Games, and A Hat in Time.' Read it in #TWC42 : bit.ly/4b6GLN4