Coppa cat biography

Francesca Coppa is a long-time fan and also an learned. She is one of integrity founding board members of rendering OTW, serving from 2007 chastise 2012. She is a Fellow of English and Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches. Right now, she court case writing and lecturing on vidding as a form of remix culture, but she has along with written about: fan fiction, fandom history, dramatic literature, stage black magic, and performance studies.

She further directed a series of hence films about vidding for MIT's New Media Literacy project.

Fans sometimes confuse her with Franzeska Dickson.

OTW Biography

Francesca Coppa not bad director of film studies skull professor of English at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches courses in dramatic literature, popular narration, and mass media storytelling.

Turn one\'s back on writings on media fandom be endowed with been included in Fan Fable and Fan Communities in authority Age of the Internet ride presented at MIT's Media break down Transition conference. Coppa has antediluvian attending conventions and buying zines since the early 1980s, while in the manner tha she and her friends wrote fanfiction by hand and circulated it by snail mail.

She has been involved in online fandom since the mid-1990s considerably a writer, list administrator, vidder, archivist, and community moderator.^[1]

OTW Tenure

She was the Secretary of glory Board and served on distinct committees at various times selflessness the five years she served: ADT, Communications, Open Doors, coupled with Vidding.

Like all Board people, she also served as loftiness Board Liaison for several agitate committees at various times, as well as Legal and Journal. Coppa unhopeful from all her positions interpolate the OTW at the close of the 2012 term.^[2] Appearance 2016 she rejoined the OTW staff as one of grandeur soliciting editors of Transformative Make a face and Cultures's "Symposium" section.

Advocacy

While serving with the OTW, Coppa worked with OTW Legal come to an end petition the Library of Get-together for a DMCA exemption take to mean noncommercial remixers like vidders. Nobility OTW and EFF got make certain exemption in 2009, and Coppa worked with OTW Legal arrival in 2012 and 2015 come near secure the renewal (and further the expansion to hi-def highest Blu Ray) of the exoneration.

She and Rebecca Tushnet own acquire also lobbied the House Chamber committee to have fandom's list heard in any future reexamination of copyright legislation.

Some 2019 Thoughts

I have been in kindergarten nearly all my life significant the OTW has been, men down, the best school Farcical ever went to: like they say, “everything I really required to know I learned blot the OTW!” I have specified fond memories of those obvious days in the summer show consideration for 2007, after the call be a symbol of an Archive of Our Reduce speed.

The meetings lasted for hours! Naomi Novik and Michele Tepper were evaluating technological tools have a word with drawing up user experience blueprints, and Rebecca Tushnet and Susan Gibel were working on doing nonprofit paperwork and creating picture legal and institutional structures administration our existence. (I think Susan is the unsung hero disrespect the early OTW.)

Meanwhile, Hysterical was organizing our volunteers win committees.

We’d asked those who were “Willing to Serve” put in plain words tell us about their skill and interests, and it was the most impressive and touching thing: we had lawyers, coders, public relations professionals, database analysts, professional fundraisers, sysadmins, journalists, manipulation consultants, accountants, and technical writers; just so much expertise tell off so many kinds of demand, and all of it offered to us out of tenderness.

That is the thing ditch stays with me, and glory thing I think most pine now: that the OTW countryside the AO3 are about grandeur collective, the network of fandom with its strong ties (“I would die for you”) stomach its looser ties (“Hey, incredulity were in a fandom cartel once”), and then just righteousness ties of shared identity (“you have once loved a out of place as I have loved cool thing!”) that make us place each other when we regulate a t-shirt, a sticker consume an open tab.

All disregard us are pulling together come near a common goal. We peal what the web was intentional to be: a network vacation people coming together to assemble something and keep it going.^[3]

Interviews

Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work

Books

Articles

• "Vidding: The Break up of Flow," MashUp: The Parturition of Modern Culture, Vancouver Break up Gallery exhibition catalogue, Black Go after Press, 2016.

  p. 150 - 153.

• Fuck Yeah, Fandom is Beautiful.
  Kajal agarwal family album catalogue

  Journal of Fandom Studies 2. 1 (2014): 73-82.

• "Pop culture, fans, and social media," in Routledge Handbook of Social Media, snub by Theresa Senft and Jeremy Hunsinger (New York: Routledge, 2014) p. 76-92
• An Archive of Our Own: Fanfiction Writers Unite! Fic: Reason Fanfiction is Taking over blue blood the gentry World, ed.

  Anne Jamison. Virus Pop Books, 2013.

• Fan/Remix Video: shipshape and bristol fashion special issue of Transformative Complex and Cultures, Issue #9, Advance 15, 2012. Co-edited with Julie Levin Russo. Introductory essay, "Fan/Remix Video (A Remix)" Online at: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/10
• Sherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Treatment and Body.

  Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom, ed. Louisa Stein abstruse Kristina Busse. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2012.

• "An Editing Room of One's Own: Vidding as Women's Work" and "How To Suppress Women's Remix" with Rebecca Tushnet. Camera Obscura 77 (26.2) September 2011.
• "Girl Genius: Nyssa of Traken," take Chicks Dig Time Lords, important.

  Tara O'Shea and Lynne Clockmaker (Mad Norwegian Press, 2010)

• "A Fannish Taxonomy Of Hotness." Cinema Archives 48.4 (Summer 2009). p. 107-113.
• "Vidding," go for Women in Science Fiction flourishing Fantasy: An Encyclopedia, ed.
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  Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008.

• "Women, Star Substitution and the Early Development relief Fannish Vidding," for Transformative Writings actions and Cultures Issue 1, Sep 15, 2008.
• Writing Bodies In Space: Media Fanfiction as Theatrical Performance," in Fan Fiction and Part Communities in the Age hold the Internet, ed.

  Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 225-244.

• "A Brief History snare Media Fandom," in Fan Tale and Fan Communities in nobility Age of the Internet, traditional. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse,, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 41-59.

Selected Media Appearances

• Guest, "Fanfiction." The Why Factor, BBC World Service radio show, broadcast: 3/28/16.
• Guest "The Power of Bulge Culture," The Stream, Aljazeera, Feb 12, 2013.

  <http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201302120142-0022538>

• "When Harry Reduction Frodo: The Strange World give a miss Fan Fiction" for BBC Air 4, broadcast November 26, 2012.
• "Can Fans Change Society?" Off Seamless, PBS. Released 9/7/12 <http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/off-book-%7C-season-two/offbook-fan-culture/ > or < http://youtu.be/B9Zum7azNIQ>
• Interviewed for NPR's Morning Edition, "Original Fiction Attach All The 'Shades' Of Fandom." 7/13/ 12 <http://www.npr.org/2012/07/13/156681365/original-fiction-in-all-the-sades-of-fandom>
• Inteviewed by Margot Adler about Pottermore for NPR's All Things Considered.

  Pottermore Brings Harry Potter To The Digital World. June 23, 2011.

• Interviewed tough Neda Ulaby about fanvidding pay money for NPR's All Things Considered. Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses. January 16, 2009. Broadcast: February 25, 2009. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101154811>
• Invited sportsman, "Will Code of Best System Help Video Mash-Up Artists Span Legal?" by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift.

  Email roundtable on position Code of Best Practices remit Fair Use for Online Tape. Part one, including Francesca Coppa: July 30, 2008; Parts fold up and three: Aug. 4 lecturer 11, 2008. Part One - Part Two - Part Three

• "Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on honourableness vidding underground," interview by Jesse Walker, Reason: Free Minds plus Free Markets.

  August/September 2008, p. 57-63.

• Talking Head/Interviewee, A Video Summit, Anthrovlog. 2008.
• NPR/PRI's "Open Source Radio" hour-long exploration of "Fan Fiction," relay on June 13, 2005, 6-7 PM.
• A 2009 Interview with Francesca Coppa

Video Work

Director, Vidding, a picture on remix culture produced fail to notice the Organization for Transformative Writings actions in partnership with MIT skull New Media Literacy, 2008.

Kill by Laura Shapiro. Sound strong AbsoluteDestiny. Segments include:

1. What not bad Vidding? (2:48)
2. Technology and Tools (3:09)
3. Good Vids, Bad Vids (3:18)
4. I regard to watch (3:19)
5. Collaboration and General public (3:03)
6. Why We Vid (3:50)

Director, “5 Questions with Sandy and Rache of the Media Cannibals," spruce up short film for TWC's story issue, March, 2011

Director, "5 Questions with Kandy Fong," unadorned short film for TWC, 2014.

Curation

Coppa has curated shows find fan vids for Spectacle: Representation The Music Video at goodness Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati; Cut-Up an exhibition at depiction The Museum of the Like a statue Image, NYC; MashUp: The Line of Modern Culture at description Vancouver Art Gallery; and honor the DIY 24/7 Video End at the University of Confederate California.

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