Dear all,
Transformative Works and Cultures journal has just published a new special issue guest edited by Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, examining Fandom and/as Labor.
Transformative Works and Cultures
Vol 15 (2014)
Table of Contents
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/16
Editorial
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Fandom and/as labor
Mel Stanfill,Megan Condis
Praxis
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Fifty shades of fan labor: Exploitation and Fifty Shades of Grey
Bethan Jones
The media festival volunteer: Connecting online and on-ground fan labor
Robert Moses Peaslee,Jessica El-Khoury,Ashley Liles
Chuck versus the ratings: Savvy fans and “save our show” campaigns
Christina Savage
Modding a free and open source software video game: “Play testing is hard
work”
Giacomo Poderi,David James Hakken
Sherlockology and Galactica.tv: Fan sites as gifts or exploited labor?
Bertha Chin
Promoting fan labor and “all things Web”: A case study of Tosh.0
Rose Helens-Hart
The cultural economics of performance space: Negotiating fan, labor, and
marketing practice in Glee ’s transmedia geography
Matthias Stork
Symposium
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Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom’s gift economy
Tisha Turk
Better Badges: Image as virus
Joly MacFie
Interview
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Veronica Mars Kickstarter and crowd funding
Bertha Chin,Bethan Jones,Myles McNutt,Luke Pebler
Review
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Digital labor: The Internet as playground and factory, edited by Trebor
Scholz
Stephanie Anne Brown
Cognitive capitalism, education, and digital labor, edited by Michael A.
Peters and Ergin Bulut
Simone D. Becque
Gaga feminism: Sex, gender, and the end of normal, by J. Jack Halberstam
Anne Kustritz
The Fan Studies Network 
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