User:Tishaturk
| Name/s: | Tisha Turk |
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| You can find me at: | at UMM on Dreamwidth on LiveJournal on Twitter |
| On Fanlore: | My contributions / email me |
Overview
I teach writing, composition studies, fan studies, gender studies, and narrative theory at the University of Minnesota at Morris, where I am an Associate Professor of English. I found fandom in my 20s, when I was a graduate student, but didn't begin doing academic work related to fans and fandom until nearly ten years later. My research focuses on vids and vidding. With Rebecca Tushnet and Francesca Coppa, I testified at the Library of Congress in favor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Exemption for Noncommercial Remix in 2009 and 2012.
Bibliography of Fandom-Related Work
Publications
"Toward an Ecology of Vidding" (with Joshua Johnson). Transformative Works and Cultures 9, special issue on Fan/Remix Video, edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo. March 2012.
"Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction." Metalepsis in Popular Culture. Eds. Karin Kukkonen and Sonja Klimek. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 83-103.
"'Your Own Imagination': Vidding and Vidwatching as Collaborative Interpretation." Film & Film Culture 5, 2010: 88-110.
Other Writing
"'New Slang': Happily Ever After." In Media Res, 20 November 2009.
"'Not Only Human': An X-Files Vid by Laura Shapiro and Killa." In Media Res, 29 January 2008.
Conference Presentations
"Authorship in Vidding: Transformation as Labor." Making and Sharing (MASH) Conference. Maastricht, Netherlands, July 2013.
"Remix: Learning from Media Fans." Digital Media and Learning Conference. San Francisco, CA, March 2012.
"Vidding as Multimedia Composing Process" (75-minute workshop). Computers & Writing Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2011.
"Vidding and Vidwatching as Multimedia Literacies." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Atlanta, GA, April 2011.
"Talking Back to TV: The Rhetoric of Fan-made Videos." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.
"Fan-made Videos and New Media Literacies." Computers & Writing Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 2010.
"Transforming TV: Story and Discourse in Fan Video Narratives." Narrative International Conference. Cleveland, OH, April 2010.
"Processing Power: Fans, Vids, and Resistant Readings." Digital Media and Learning Conference. UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, February 2010.
"Talking Back to TV: Fan-made Videos as Female Rhetoric." Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, October 2009.
"Decoding the Decoders: Vidwatching as Participatory Interpretation." Reception Study Society Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 2009.
"Metalepsis in Vidding and Fan Fiction." International and Interdisciplinary Congress on Metalepsis in Popular Culture. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 2009.
"Transformative Narrations: Fan-made Videos and Fair Use." Intellectual Property/Gender: Mapping the Connections. American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC, April 2009.
Invited Lectures
"Reading Remix: The Process of Vidwatching." Cinema Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, March 2013.
Convention Panels
"Vids in Academia." VividCon 2011.
Media Appearances
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) InterActs round table discussion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemptions and online media. Livecast: 27 March 2013.
Interviewed by chaeche for Slashcast, episode 37, on the 2012 DMCA exemption: "The amazing true story of how the OTW went up against the entertainment industry… and won." Podcast: 2 December 2012.
Interviewed by Dave Levine for Hearsay Culture on vidding and fair use. Broadcast: KZSU-FM (Stanford University), 17 July 2012.