*snortgiggle*

[hope]

The academic book I'm reading on Star Wars fandom just referenced maygra.

I fucking love fandom so hard. It just takes the occassional prodding to remind me just why and how much.

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[hope]

tis a bit weird. in the interests of scholarly ethics, I'd think he'd not be using a pseudonym, but who knows? everyone does things differently with new media, it seems.

A goodly portion of the book is on 'creativity and star wars', which makes me wonder what kind of stuff it alone stirred up... possibly i need to read the introduction to find out *g*

Anyway. was cool to see your name in there :D

[sharpest_rose.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that particular book, but other things of Will Brooker's I've seen have contained some fairly unethical uses of internet resources, so I wouldn't be shocked if he didn't ask permission.

[hope]

hah, indeed. I thought you might have some knowledge of his methodology.

[frollo.livejournal.com]

Ah, this old problem raises its head again. My personal opinion is that if the 'resource' is free and available on the internet then the only acknowledgement required is the usual sort, i.e author, date, url etc. I don't see the point in asking permission to quote something on the net. If I quote/reference a book do I need to write to the author to ask permission first? Unless the resource was personal communication (e.g, email), or of a particularly personal nature, I feel that the fact that most fic/blogs/discussion are freely accessible by anyone with a computer and an internet connection means it is essentially 'out there' so to speak. At least Brooker acknowledged the pseudonym and url, which is surely all that many who read the fic know of its author anyway, despite your own obviously more intimate relationship with the author?

I know that many disagree with me. I'm curious to know your opinion on this. Are things posted on the net in a special category?


(BTW, I think Brooker's work is often, um... less academically rigorous than it could be).