Data sets
Interpretation
Theory
Methodology
Contact
Visual language of manga dictionary (coming up)
The big narrative elements data set (coming up)
All bookmarks on http://groups.diigo.com/fanfic-forensics/bookmark
Mail address:
Nele Noppe
Japanese Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 - bus 3318
3000 Leuven
Belgium
nele.noppe@arts.kuleuven.be
...and its mirror on IJ: http://fanficforensics.insanejournal.com
On the main site: http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/blog
The slightly less deadly serious version on LJ... http://fanficforensics.livejournal.com
Full tag cloud at the right of each page on http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics
Data set for the article "James Potter loves Severus Snape, but only in Japan. 'Harry Potter' in Japanese and English-language fanwork": http://creator.zoho.com/nele.noppe/copy-of-hp-fanfic-versus-dojinshi/#View:djff
first analysis
http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/16
Interpretation of the test data set: http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/16
let people vote on most likely explanation?
visual: noses Tezuka chars, Escaflowne
'Fanfic Forensics' is a Ph.D project started in September 2008 with the aim of conducting a comparison of narrative and visual elements occurring in Japanese and English-language fanwork derived from the same original work ('Harry Potter'). I focus on fanwork dealing with Severus Snape, because this character appears to inspire the most diverse and interesting textual and visual fan interpretations. 
Also, a semiotic approach would allow us to collect a large and comparatively objective set of data about the actual content of dōjinshi, data that can be freely interpreted in a large number of ways and can be easily published online so that other readers and researchers can offer their own interpretations of them. Finally, I propose that interpreting dōjinshi and fanfics as real-world examples of semiotician Umberto Eco's fairly abstract theory of the “open work” would aid us considerably in correctly interpreting the data gleaned from the texts.
References tag cloud on far right
A comparison of the narrative and visual properties of dōjinshi and fanfics would benefit from a semiotic approach to data collection and analysis, for several reasons. Other methodologies often used in fanfic analysis -chiefly methods of literary criticism- have limitations with regards to cross-cultural research.
PILOT TEST
(DEC 2008)
WHAT?
Harry Potter
IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FANWORK
A RESEARCH PROJECT ABOUT
Random ideas
JOIN IN
Please feel free to add any insights or comments to the data set above. The more ideas, the better...
http://fanficforensics.livejournal.com/6644.html
http://fanficforensics.insanejournal.com/6264.html
OR
OR
BLOG
(text coming soon)
Paper
...download full text at http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/fanwork_noppe.pdf
Dojinshi
glossary
Visual grammar
of manga
What are
dojinshi?
PROJECT BASICS
Appendices
Appearance
Creators
Audience
Distribution
Content
components of a DJ
paper
number of pages
colour
author's comments
images
manga stories
textual stories
events
shops
online
demographic
organization
stated motives
demographic
organization
stated motives
to be filled in soon
explain dojinshi terminology used in the writeup of the research
wherever possible, give English equivalents of the terms used and discuss to what degree they correspond to the Japanese words
glossary draft data set: http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/560
to be filled in soon
TWITTER
Annotated
bibliography
http://twitter.com/fanficforensics
For random research ideas that don't merit a blog post
 
draft data set: http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/561
data sets used for analysis, all unfinished
DATA SETS
Dojinshi data set - http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/618
Fanfic data set - http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/619
Dojinshi terminology - http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/560
Visual grammar of manga - http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/561
Topics to explore - http://www.nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/node/621
UPDATES
VIA:
I conducted a preliminary test of my methodology in 2008, described here and in the resulting (unpublished) paper available as a PDF download below. The larger-scale research I'm conducting at this moment builds on this early test.
RESULTS
project updates
lecture notes
fic/dojinshi recommendations
...
(whatever takes longer than a tweet, really)
Presentations
presentation: http://prezi.com/_x7wudfrex2d/
The place of derivative works within comics studies: the influence of copyright law on the  divide between amateur and professional works 
(dec 2009, "Comics worlds and the world of comics", Kyoto. Japanese and English)
The 'open work' as a framework for the interpretation of fan fiction
(feb 2010, "Textual Echoes: Fan Fiction and Sexualities", Umea. English)
presentation:
http://prezi.com/uwjwjrhvvye3
abstracts and conference info here: http://www.mos.umu.se/forskning/cyberekon/symposiumabstracts.htm
(okt 2010, "Intercultural Crossovers, Transcultural Flows: Manga/Comics", Cologne. English)
coming soon, abstract here: 
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~japan/download/cooljapan/programm_koeln.pdf
Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art
Thesis text
The sandbox where the final text of the thesis is taking shape

http://nelenoppe.net/fanficforensics/thesis