This week, Henry & Colin are joined by three fan studies scholars, andré m. carrington,author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction; Abigail De Kosnik, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation; and Rukmini Pande author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the Margins. We talk about how race has been addressed (or not) in fandoms and fan studies, digging into recent fandom controversies over race, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the legacy of fandom’s roots in America. We ask how Squid Games can be the most popular series on Netflix, even as we are seeing an unprecidented wave of anti-Asian hate crimes or why fandom has tended to ignore some of the characters of color who have emerged through popular entertainment franchises. Ultimately, how can we look beyond the competing narratives of “fandom will save us” vs. “toxic fandom” for more nuanced ways to understand and deal with societal biases through fandoms?A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:andré m. carrington - Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science FictionAbigail De Kosnik - Associate Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and NationRukmini Pande - Associate Professor, Literary Studies and Writing, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the MarginsOriginal Star Trek series – origins of fandomStar Wars Last Jedi trolling - Kelly Marie Tran, Krystina Arielle, John BoyegaTolkien fandom dust-upEarly Sherlock Holmes fan clubsStar Trek, Blake’s 7 60s-70sEarly internet fandom – usenet, geo cities, yahoo groupsLive JournalFan Pressure to integrate:Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone RebootAva duVernay’s A Wrinkle in TimeDisney’s live action version The Little MermaidThe Flash – pushback on casting Iris as BlackNetflix announces Squid Game is bigger than BridgertonWendy Chun – High-Tech orientalismConcept of “ships”/"shipping"Bong Joon-ho, Steven YeunBruce Lee (actor) vs. Kato in the Green Hornet (character)Simu Liu (actor) vs. Shang-Chi (character)Korean media wave: BTS, ParasiteFan fiction and diversity/inclusionSorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)Tenoch Huerta as Namor (Black Panther character)Oscar IsaacTony LeungLead Users and Democratizing Innovation book by Eric Von HippleRobert KozinetsReview of #Republic (and the value of deliberating enclaves) by David WeinbergerMichael Saler - a public sphere of the imaginationEpisode #79: Hope for New Online Public Spaces with Talia Stroud and Eli PariserShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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