Geert Hofstede & Intercultural Value Dimensions
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Otaku Public Library: MANGA REVIEW - How Not to Draw Manga, by Christ Reid and John Katz - 0 views
Otaku2 - Doujinshi and Law - 0 views
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An increasingly popular outlet for manga enthusiasts is doujinshi, meaning both fan-produced manga and the “circles” that create them. They flout copyright law and rearticulate the characters they love, and their numbers are many—the largest public get-together in Japan is not a World Cup or Olympic gathering, but rather a doujinshi market called Comike.
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Legally, fans can produce whatever they want insofar as it’s not blatantly for profit or obscene.
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Researcher Gunnar Hempel, 27, a Sophia University MA who wrote his thesis on the phenomenon, estimates there are 8,000 Japanese living off doujinshi, but stresses the number could be greater thanks to digital publishing. A “professional doujinshi” artist scrapes by on some 12,000 yen a month, but can gross 32,000 yen from large sales events.
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Severus Snape in canon - 0 views
Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics - 0 views
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Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Jacobs shows how netporn images and services are important ways of redefining the network body and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society.
Why do women write m/m fiction? Answers for the men. - 0 views
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So, that preamble over with, why do women write m/m romance? There are many possible reasons because each author is different, but here are some answers which are true of many women.
Full-frontal nudity: Taboo for men - 0 views
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Elayne Rapping, a professor of women’s studies and media studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, said it’s such as it ever was: You can look back to classic paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries and see fully clothed men with nude women.“That’s been a constant of Western culture for centuries in representational art — that women have been presented as objects for what in film theory is called ‘the male gaze.’ The assumed viewer is male, and the woman is to be looked at for male pleasure,” she said.
Sometimes a Gaze is just an Eyeball! - 0 views
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The male gaze is social power, which it both draws from and reinforces. You therefore cannot have a female gaze. You can have individual objectification and desire, but there is no gaze.
jennem: Spoilers & Fandom Netiquette: OR, LIVEJOURNAL-UR DOIN IT RONG! - 0 views
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your space. You're free to write whatever the hell you want in it. But, don't be surprised when people call you on your shitty behavior and poor manners. Because on livejournal, your space gets incorporated into my space. That is, afterall, what its all about.
Editor of Syzygy - The Female Gaze - 0 views
Otaku Academy - 0 views
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