[Air-L] Kerfuffle researching fanfic/fandom

[Tuszynski, Stephanie]

>> 2. This research wasn't even for a project at BU; it was for a privately
>> published book. (A book titled, incidentally, Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches
>> Us About The Brain. I am not making this up.)

>OK, the research methods suck, but I LOVE the book title!

>Robin

That's part of what worries me. Ogi Ogas has already been given an advance for this book. What kind of shoddy crap is he going to publish, using information provided by people unwittingly (or in some cases maliciously - people were intentionally giving bad answers after some of the fail became more obvious)? This guy was targeting a specific subgroup of fanfic writers looking for "deviant women" to use for his own purposes. And a titillating book title will encourage people to buy it, and I hate the thought of fandom being represented by this schmuck.

Also someone else on LJ did some digging and discovered his partner has linked to some seriously disturbing neocon and white supremacist writings: http://romaine24.livejournal.com/134010.html?format=light



Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski
Assistant Professor of Communication
Bethany College

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