Abigail De Kosnik
Bio
| Abigail De Kosnik is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. |
Abstract
Fan Labor as Paid Labor?
Fan labor is often given away for free, yet it is an increasingly a popular form of mass entertainment and creates value for the owners of "source" material (the [moving] images, sounds, and text that serve as the basis for fan creations such as mash-ups, remixes, fan fiction, etc). I will be asking the question, Under what circumstances can fan labor be paid labor? As the entertainment industry shifts from mass broadcast to narrowcast formats, and as tools for appropriating media and publishing appropriations become more common, questions about how fan creators can be compensated deserve serious consideration.