#ggc19

[destinationtoast]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Behold, @olderthannetfic‘s and my slides and notes from GGC19!  Now available on AO3.

Topics addressed include:

Impact of recent events on fandom (Game of Thrones finale, Good Omens, Chinese government crackdown on slash & original M/M)

How fanwork production changes over time

How fanworks differ across different platforms

[warriorbeeofthesea]

So, I'm taking my kiddo to a con this weekend (GGC in Seattle, let me know if you'll be there) and this morning I was telling him he can dress up if he wants.

Kiddo: What? Why?

Me: Remember how last year it was right before Halloween and we let you wear your costume? At a con you can dress up any time of the year! It's cosplay!

Kiddo: OK, so last year I dressed as a vampire, this year it's closer to Thanksgiving, so I'll dress as... a roast turkey!

Me: ... 'k

My child, the turkey cosplayer 👏👏👏

[fansplaining]

We’re coming to GeekGirlCon!

The programming schedule is OUT and we’re ON IT! Hooray @geekgirlcon!!

Our events:

“Research & Data Science in Fandom” 11:30 am, Saturday Nov 16 — we’re joining a panel including such luminaries as @destinationtoast!

“Fansplaining Live” 10:00 am, Sunday Nov 17 — our first ever live show!!

COME JOIN US IN SEATTLE! 🎉

[nerdiestlittleartist]

I loved running the Cosplay Figure Drawing workshop @geekgirlcon 2019! We had waaay more people than I expected. Of course I couldn’t have done it without the amazing cosplayers and models, Ellie and Marlow or my emotional support Erica, Allen, and Melanie.

This workshop was full of so many firsts. My first time running any sort of workshop/panel at a con, my first time interviewing someone in front of an audience, my first time saying I’m genderfluid out loud to a group of complete strangers IRL.

Thank you to everyone for your kind words and participation. I hope to bring Cosplay Figure Drawing back for 2020!

[destinationtoast]

Hi, I'm a new tumblr fumbling around with fanfic analysis! I just wanted to say that I remember stumbling across your stuff a couple years back looking up stuff for a class and it's always stuck with me. I'm really glad to see coming back now that you're still around! Would you have any recs for other active-ish fandom analysis blogs?

Aww, thank you!  :3  

I am packing to head out to GeekGirlCon, so I don’t have time to give your recs question the full attention it deserves.  But I’ve gathered some pointers to other analyses in the past.  And my GeekGirlCon co-panelists are all worth checking out:

@olderthannetfic has done various analyses of fanwork content and is co-presenting some analyses with me at the con.  

University of Washington has a research lab ( @ffanalytics ) that looks at questions like how reader feedback influences fan authors.

@fansplaining ​ does really cool fandom surveys and detailed articles writing up their findings.

Also check out the #fandom stats tag here on Tumblr.  And anyone who follows me who wants to self-rec, please do so in the comments!  (I’d also love more pointers to newer fandom data blogs to check out.)

[destinationtoast]

A couple requests for y’all:

Please come to the Research & Data Science in Fandom panel at GeekGirlCon if you can!  At least, please do so if you’ll be in Seattle next weekend and you want to see interesting/entertaining data about recent fandom trends.  A bunch of awesome people will be presenting on Nov 16 at 11:30am in the Chell room. 

If you spot errors in the Venn diagram above, please let me know.  I don’t know most of the fandoms very well, and I’m not sure I have properly classified them all (especially which ones contain angel & demon characters).  Please help me correct my mistakes before my presentation.  XD

I will be sharing my slides afterwards, as I’ve done in the past -- so if you can’t make it in person, don’t fret.

[destinationtoast]

Me & @fansplaining at GGC19!

[destinationtoast]

GeekGirlCon panel report

The Fandom Research & Data Science panel was a ton of fun -- thanks to everyone who made it! And thanks to @fansplaining , @ffanalytics , and @olderthannetfic for being great co-panelists.

As happened two years ago, we filled the room to capacity. That was a delight; it's so awesome to get to meet so many other data enthusiasts!

The audience was very engaged. (My non-fandom local family members who came to see the panel said, "I've never seen graphs get such intense responses -- some of it was as if you all were doing stand-up comedy!") The audience had tons of great questions that filled the ~20 minutes we had for Q&A, and then a bunch of folks stuck around to talk/ask more questions/volunteer to help code data afterwards. Such a warm and fuzzy and supportive experience.

A few questions I remember:

(When) do blog posts/videos outside of fandom spaces that are critically engaging with & analyzing media count as transformative media? As fanworks?

What are we all hoping people will take away from all our data?

Stats can be deliberately gathered in biased ways to support an agenda, or they can be misleading due to bad methodology. But people tend to take graphs as The Truth. How do we handle those kinds of issues?

I'll be posting the slides @olderthannetfic and I presented to AO3 soonish, along vwith some bonus slides that had to be cut for time. I'll include more detailed notes and raw data. I will of course link to that here. :)