OK, cool. I only guessed because I hadn't seen many posts that were not pro-otw. I don't suppose you could point me to some of the others that prompted your post?
I don't see where they are trying to represent people beyond that, though. I particularly remember the discussions over "media fandom" which especially showed the commitment was to a particular community...
Media fandom is only mentioned in one place on the OTW site: in Francesca Coppa's bio. The only other use of media (not counting where it's used talking about the outside press etc) is here: "We value transformative fanworks and the innovative communities from which they have arisen, including media, real person fiction, anime, comics, music and vidding." Its not clear to me how its meant here. Do they value "media" as something fan's do or create (the way "vidding" is), in which case- what exactly is a fan creating/doing when they "media"? Or do they mean media as the original source material a fandom springs up around, in which case a. what original source does "vidding" refer to and b. when did anime and comics become predominantly female communities with a female history? I'm also not clear on if book fandoms are covered, like HP or LotR, which are unquestionably huge fandoms but developed independently of the historically female dominated media fandoms.
There was something about being "inclusive" of all fen's identities i believe on the website, but now I'm searching for it and can't find it. Either I've confused where this was said or it was taken out.
On the "about" page, phrases like this: "OTW was created to work toward a future in which all fannish works are recognized as... and to preserve our fannish economy, values, and way of life [etc]..., while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans." and that they'll be "...preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms" Or on the wiki page "Authorship of the wiki will be encouraged from any and all fans"
So all those things together give me me a mixed message of intending to be inclusive of ALL fen and fandoms, and excluding of those that don't share their female history or identities.
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I don't see where they are trying to represent people beyond that, though. I particularly remember the discussions over "media fandom" which especially showed the commitment was to a particular community...
Media fandom is only mentioned in one place on the OTW site: in Francesca Coppa's bio. The only other use of media (not counting where it's used talking about the outside press etc) is here: "We value transformative fanworks and the innovative communities from which they have arisen, including media, real person fiction, anime, comics, music and vidding." Its not clear to me how its meant here. Do they value "media" as something fan's do or create (the way "vidding" is), in which case- what exactly is a fan creating/doing when they "media"? Or do they mean media as the original source material a fandom springs up around, in which case a. what original source does "vidding" refer to and b. when did anime and comics become predominantly female communities with a female history? I'm also not clear on if book fandoms are covered, like HP or LotR, which are unquestionably huge fandoms but developed independently of the historically female dominated media fandoms.
There was something about being "inclusive" of all fen's identities i believe on the website, but now I'm searching for it and can't find it. Either I've confused where this was said or it was taken out.
On the "about" page, phrases like this: "OTW was created to work toward a future in which all fannish works are recognized as... and to preserve our fannish economy, values, and way of life [etc]..., while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans." and that they'll be "...preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms" Or on the wiki page "Authorship of the wiki will be encouraged from any and all fans"
So all those things together give me me a mixed message of intending to be inclusive of ALL fen and fandoms, and excluding of those that don't share their female history or identities.