http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/07/29/leakycon-portland-where-the-fangirls-are/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/07/29/leakycon-portland-where-the-fangirls-are/comment-page-1/#comment-411362 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:03:04 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=20972#comment-411362 Rereading this now, with some more distance from the con, I found myself struck by the way congoers negotiate the differences between community online and off–trying to assert online culture in an offline space. The most clear example is certainly the wall-of-tumblr, but I’m also thinking of the refrain of meetups where people shouted out pairings or fanfic as a way of communicating these various elements of not only what they like/their fluid identities (thinking ahead to your later post) but of where they participate online and what their online experience is. At the time I was a little thrown by the lack of substantial engagement in those meetups, but I think I’m coming to realize that wasn’t the point; maybe the point was more to signal ongoing substantial engagement that’s already happening online? Like it didn’t actually need to be recreated at LeakyCon, just acknowledged and built upon?

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