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We’re Back…

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 29 June 2009

But then off again to Anime Expo!
Sorry for the aberrant hiatus, everyone. Been really busy in the past few weeks with:
- Open Video Conference, where I spoke about the anime fandom’s balancing act of video culture and copyright law
- Web Ecology Project: We released a white paper full of quantitative analysis about how ideas move [...]

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Animated Fan Production in the Anime Fandom

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 9 March 2009

Introduction
This article is an attempt to organize thoughts around Otakon 2008’s epic opening animation as well as the recent Global Shinkai Day over at Crunchyroll.
Brief History of Fan Animation
Ever since I first started talking about anime on panels at conventions (or just telling people about it in academia), I’ve always shown the famous Gainax productions, [...]

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2B2P.2 – Otaku Are Dead, or Recursive Publics in the Hands of Other Geeks

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 15 July 2008

Apologies for the unannounced blog vacation (my euphemized term for outright, down-to-earth, human, carnal, base, heart-felt, summer-induced indolence). The metal tick has kept on ticking, yet the physical tock never really kicked in, but that only means that I have a lot to write about in the coming days. So, let us begin…
When I was [...]

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    See me speak at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston, MA, from March 26th - 28th, 2010.


    See me speak at the Popular Culture Association National Conference in St. Louis, MI, from March 31st - April 3rd, 2010.


    See me speak at Anime Boston in Boston, MA, from April 2nd - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at ROFLcon II in Boston, MA, from April 30th - May 1st, 2010.


    Meet me at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA, from July 1st - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at Otakon in Baltimore, MD, from July 30th - August 1st, 2010.

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