Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
Recently, the power of the fangirl has been seen as having potential economic power, especially with the huge opening of New Moon. And regardless of…
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future…
Once again, Joss Whedon’s latest television show, Dollhouse, like Buffy, Angel, and Firefly before it, was on the verge of cancellation. But not this time….
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely…
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is the highly recommended third book by Laurence Lessig, focusing on why and how copyright…
While we can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program, they have put on another great…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5B0XItDpSM] According to today’s New York Times article, YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money, we could be making the big bucks on You Tube: One…
I attended a very interesting lecture “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai. While…
The ownership issues involving Superman have always been contentious but not factually disputed — two teenagers created Superman and then sold their rights for a…