Boys' Love anime and queer desires in convergence culture: transnational fandom, censorship and resistance

Wood, Andrea

doi:10.1080/21504857.2013.784201

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“…With specific reference to PIC, Professor Suzanne Orr has gone as far as stating that we now have 'an offence with expansive, ill-defined descriptors which may well violate human rights and that could lead to the inclusion of a wide range of material in the ambit of criminalisation ' (2010, p. 254). And similar legislation in the United States 18 was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2002 (Fischel, 2013) only to be resurrected in slightly amended form in the PROTECT 19 Act of 2003 (Wood, 2013). …”

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Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law

Madill¹

2015

Children, Sexuality and Sexualization

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Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law

Madill¹

2015

Children, Sexuality and Sexualization

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“…Yet, as Hope goes on to note, 'the majority of children get pleasure from taking risks, it offers excitement, an escape from tedium', noting also that overly restrictive internet policies mean that young people are not given the chance to learn how to assess and manage risks for themselves ' (p. 698). Wood (2013) has argued that efforts to stop young people accessing sexual content are often based on discourses of childhood 'innocence' and as such these approaches have the effect of 'disavowing the possibility that adolescents are in a process of understanding their own sexualities and often desire access to media that allow them to explore their erotic fantasies' (p. 46). Simpson (2013: 692) notes that 'the law has struggled with the autonomy of the child in sexual matters' and consequently the agency of young people who choose to actively seek out sexual material and wish to engage with other young people around sexual issues in online forums is overlooked.…”

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‘Not in front of the parents!’ Young people, sexual literacies and intimate citizenship in the internet age

McLelland

2016

Sexualities

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Clause 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right 'to seek, receive or impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in art or in any other media of the child's voice'. However, there is one area in which this directive is constrained in various countries by domestic regulations curtailing children's access to information. That area is human sexuality. The arguments for and against children's access to sex education are well rehearsed. In this article, the author pursues a different angle, looking instead at the increasing restrictions placed upon young people's ability to imagine and communicate with each other about sexual issues, particularly in online settings. The advent of the internet and a range of social networking sites have not only enabled young people to access previously quarantined information about sexuality, but also to actively engage in forms of 'intimate citizenship' online. In this article, the author focuses on young people's online fan communities which use characters from popular culture such as Harry Potter or a range of Japanese manga and animation to imagine and explore sexual issues. 'Child abuse publications legislation' in Australia and elsewhere now criminalizes the representation of even imaginary characters who are or may only 'appear to be' under the age of 18 in sexual scenarios. Hence these children and young people are in danger of being charged with the offence of manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. Despite research into these fandoms that indicates that they are of positive benefit to young people in developing 'sexual literacies', there is increasingly diminishing space for young people under the age of 18 to imagine or communicate about sexuality, even in the context of purely fictional scenarios.

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“…These two sometimes reinforce each other, creating a more satisfied relationship between the producers and consumers, but sometimes they contradict, causing negotiations of power between them (Jenkins and Deuze, 2008). In addition, while fans may engage in the productive but piracy act, such as writing fan fiction and making fan art, they can also be the most loyal consumers at the same time (Wood, 2013). That is why even though media corporations still hold a lot of power, in convergence culture fans also have some leverage over the production of media content.…”

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Fandom and identity construction: an analysis of Thai fans’ engagement with Twitter

Smutradontri

Gadavanij

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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In our digital era, fandom has become a social and cultural phenomenon, notably in Thailand. Fans are dedicated, and creating fan text (i.e., text production made by fans about their object of fandom) is one way of showing dedication and passion to the fan base. This article explores how Thai fans engage with fan text on popular social media platforms such as Twitter, and how fandom relates to identity construction among Thai fans who are online media users. The results from a selected sample comprising 100 fan tweets from four different sources, suggests five types of fan tweets, including: hypothetical interpretation, fan art, narrative concerning an anecdote regarding the source text, expression of personal opinions and feelings, and fan parody. Moreover, this article discusses fans’ shared lexicon called ‘fan talk,’ and how fans position themselves as relatives and friends of the source texts. This article further discusses the humorous nature and the transcultural elements found in fan tweets, especially the ‘Thai-ifize’ method that fans use in creating fan tweets.

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Boys' Love anime and queer desires in convergence culture: transnational fandom, censorship and resistance

Cited by 46 publications

References 3 publications

Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law

Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law

‘Not in front of the parents!’ Young people, sexual literacies and intimate citizenship in the internet age

Fandom and identity construction: an analysis of Thai fans’ engagement with Twitter

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