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Francesca Coppa


Name: Francesca Coppa
Also Known As: fcoppa, FC
Occupation: OTW board member, professor
Medium: talks, articles, video, other
Works: listed
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Overview

Francesca Coppa is a long-time fan and also an academic. She is one of the founding board members of the OTW, and also Director of Film Studies and Associate Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches. Right now, she is doing a lot of work on vidding as a form of remix culture, but she has also written about: fan fiction, fandom history, dramatic literature, stage magic, and performance studies. She also directed a series of short films about vidding for MIT's New Media Literacy project.

As OTW Board Member

She was the Secretary of the Board and is a member of ADT. She is currently the Chair of the Vidding History and Open Doors projects, and she is going to be chair the Communications team in the new term. She is the Board Liaison for the OTW Webmasters, Dev/Mem, and the OTW's academic journal, Transformative Works and Cultures.

Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work

Upcoming Talks

  • "Music as a tool for analyzing visual media," at Mashup: The Future of Cultural Production and Ownership. March 12-13, 2009. The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (in conjunction with the Wexner Center for the Arts).
  • "Women's Work" (with Rebecca Tushnet). Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Triennial Symposium: April 10, 2009
  • IP/Gender, American University School of Law, April 24, 2008.

Publications

  • "A Fannish Taxonomy Of Hotness." Cinema Journal, Summer, 2009 (forthcoming)
  • "Vidding," for Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Robin Reid. (forthcoming)
  • Writing Bodies In Space: Media Fanfiction as Theatrical Performance," in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, ed. Hellekson & Busse, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 225-244.
  • "A Brief History of Media Fandom," in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, ed. Hellekson & Busse, (MacFarland, 2006) p. 41-59.

Other Writing

  • Guest Blogger, Gender and Fan Culture Series, Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins. Debate with Robert Kozinets, York University. September 6 -7, 2007. Part One and Part Two.

Lectures and Conferences

  • "Fair Use and the Future of the Commons," USC/ Institute for Multimedia Literacy, October 27, 2008.
  • "Media Cannibals: A History of Vidding Women," IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, American University School of Law, April 4, 2008.
  • "Media Fetish: The Vidshow." Beyond Queer: The Spectacle of the Performing Body; Pride Event: Brown University, April 6, 2008. Partial Transcript.
  • "From Number One to First Lady: Trek's Christine Chapel and the Development of Fannish Music Video," Slash 3: The Final Cut (Leicester, UK; Feb 25, 2008)
  • "Geneology of Vidding," 24/7: A DIY Video Summit (February 8-10, 2008; School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California)
  • Panelist, Ad Hoc Vox: a discussion addressing the creation of fictitious identities in narrative. Bellwether Gallery. November 27, 2007.
  • "'We are controlling transmission': Female Video Editors and the Literary Music Video." "Creative Transformation: Specificity and Continuity in Unofficial Creative Authorship," MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age (April 27-29, 2007)
  • "Media Cannibals: A History of Vidding Women," Inside/Outside: The Gaze and PsychoAnalysis. Feminism(s): Film, Video, and Politics Symposium. University of Hartford, April 21, 2007
  • "Embodying the Geek Hierarchy: Media Fanfiction and Theatrical Performance," Fantasy and Fan Fiction: Merging Modes and Genres in Appropriated Texts. ICFA, March 17-20, 2005.

Media Appearances

  • Invited participant, "Will Code of Best Practices Help Video Mash-Up Artists Stay Legal?" by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift. Email roundtable on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Part one, including Francesca Coppa: July 30, 2008; Parts two and three: Aug. 4 and 11, 2008. Part One - Part Two - Part Three
  • NPR/PRI's "Open Source Radio" hour-long exploration of "Fan Fiction," broadcast on June 13th, 2005, 6-7 PM.

Video Work

Director, Vidding, a documentary on remix culture produced by the Organization for Transformative Works in partnership with MIT and New Media Literacy, 2008. Edited by Laura Shapiro. Sound by AbsoluteDestiny. Segments include:

  1. What is Vidding? (2:48)
  2. Technology and Tools (3:09)
  3. Good Vids, Bad Vids (3:18)
  4. I like to watch (3:19)
  5. Collaboration and Community (3:03)
  6. Why We Vid (3:50)
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