scholarly journals Twinship, incest, and twincest in the Harry Potter universe

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Cuntz-Leng
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Sibling Pairs ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Ample Opportunity ◽  
Fiction Writers

Among the large group of Harry Potter fans who write their own stories about the boy wizard, his friends, and his foes, and publish them on the Internet, some are interested in the exploration of the erotic and romantic bond between identical twins. Because the Harry Potter saga features two sets of identical twin pairs of different gender—the Weasley brothers and the Patil sisters—the series not only provides a unique playground for the recipients in terms of the possibilities for twincest stories; more importantly, it offers ample opportunity for researchers to examine how fans actually use such pairings. In this essay, the examination of twin relationships as portrayed within Rowling's works, the movies, and in twincest fan fiction are confronted with each other to outline how Rowling's different concepts of the sibling pairs and the author's general ongoing interest in doubling motifs is consistently expanded by fan fiction writers to discuss the complex relationship between source and fan text.

scholarly journals Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Many ◽  
Harry Potter Novels

AbstractThe politics of children’s literature and the actors surrounding it have never been more visible than they are now, in the digital age. As one of the first children’s series to gain widespread popularity concurrently with the spread of the internet, the Harry Potter septet arrived on the global stage at the perfect moment to develop an avid, connected fandom. But the fandom has laid bare the many conflicting ideologies of the fans themselves and of the actors surrounding the texts. This article examines the contentious issue of gender nonnormativity and its relation to the Harry Potter texts, the queer/trans reading practices and political resistance common to the fandom, and the ongoing disagreements over gender, made visible on social media, between Rowling and the fans of her series. The article discusses the Harry Potter novels’ varied and conflicting ideologies; queer/trans readings of the Potter septet, including both invitations and resistances to queer/trans reading by Rowling herself; how gender is queered and queried in and through fan fiction; and finally, the recent hostilities between Rowling and her fans. It concludes by discussing the worsening relationship between Rowling and her fans and highlighting how fans are using their collective power to undermine Rowling’s gender politics through fan fiction. By doing so, the article traces the complex politics of the reception of books for young people in the digital age, demonstrating that authors’ powerful voices continue to shape readers’ responses to texts long after their publication but showing, too, that readers often resist authors’ attempts to influence not only their textual interpretations but their politics.

scholarly journals Text mining, Hermione Granger, and fan fiction: What's in a name?

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Leigh Rowe ◽  
Tolonda Henderson ◽  
Tianyu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fiction Writers

When fans rewrite characters, how do they engage that character's identity and the social constructions around it? Fan fiction writers resist, replicate, and create oppressive social systems by changing characters between published and fan texts. As such, fan studies scholars have long been interested in how fans construct characters, an interest that has often been paired with readings of race, gender, and sexuality. Digital humanities can help confirm and nuance extant fan studies scholarship around specific characters popular in fan fiction. We used Word2Vec software to mine the text of 450 pieces of fan fiction based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. By focusing on the depiction of Hermione Granger in both Rowling's novels and Harry Potter fan fiction, we tested how text mining character names can reveal properties closely tied to a specific character through the relationships between the target name and other characters. Analysis via Word2Vec found that "Hermione" is used grammatically and contextually differently in the books (in which she is most like Harry and Ron) than in our fan fiction corpus (in which she is most like other girls/women). This difference suggests that these fans have a specific reading of Hermione that is communally understood even if Rowling's diction offers a different reading.

scholarly journals Fanfiction: Morality Challenges in Hyperreality Worlds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellita Permata Widjayanti ◽  
Chaerul Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Using Data

In 4.0 era, in which popular culture is flourishing, fanfiction is experiencing rapid growth. Many fans write about their idols, characters in movies, anime, games, and TV series. They make simulations, create simulacra, and hyperreality. Unfortunately, there are many fan-fiction productions which have pornographic content that is not in accordance with Indonesian cultural norms and moral ethics. This then becomes a moral challenge for the nation, especially for the youth, as they have free access to the internet. This research aims to look the challenges of morality within fanfiction, explaining it through the theory of hyperreality by using data taken from popular fanfiction platforms. The results show that pornography contained in fanfiction poses a threat to the moral codes of teenage readers, and renders pornographic practices more common. Besides, the hyperreality fosters sexual fantasies, which may lead to sexual harassment, free sex, and deviant sex. Keywords: fanfiction, simulation, simulacra, hyperreality, pornography, morality

scholarly journals Cultural accumulation and improvement in online fan fiction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Pianzola ◽  
Alberto Acerbi ◽  
Simone Rebora
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Cumulative Culture ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Cumulative Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Evolution Theory ◽  
Digital Literary Studies

We analyse stories in Harry Potter fan fiction published on Archive of Our Own (AO3), using concepts from cultural evolution. In particular, we focus on cumulative cultural evolution, that is, the idea that cultural systems improve with time, drawing on previous innovations. In this study we examine two features of cumulative culture: accumulation and improvement. First, we show that stories in Harry Potter’s fan fiction accumulate cultural traits—unique tags, in our analysis—through time, both globally and at the level of single stories. Second, more recent stories are also liked more by readers than earlier stories. Our research illustrates the potential of the combination of cultural evolution theory and digital literary studies, and it paves the way for the study of the effects of online digital media on cultural cumulation.

Financing Nascent Entrepreneurs by Reward-Based Crowdfunding

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-252
Author(s):  
Susana Bernardino ◽  
J. Freitas Santos ◽  
Silvie Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Banking System ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
New Venture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Small Investors ◽  
Different Levels

A problem faced by nascent entrepreneurs is to attract outside capital to finance a new venture. A new promising funding mechanism created outside the banking system is crowdfunding (CF). The reward-based model of CF allows nascent entrepreneurs to capture funds from a large group of small investors through a campaign on the Internet. In return for the contribution of the backers, crowdfundees provide rewards (tangible items or services) or other types of incentives. However, in order to be successful a campaign must be designed according to a strategy that encompasses important steps. This study collects data from projects posted in the Indiegogo platform to identify the critical factors of a successful reward-based campaign. The results indicate that it is possible to find an explanation for the different levels of success of reward CF campaigns based on the analysis of the characteristics of the project (depth of the description, updates, and type) and its founders (own presentation, number of backers, team involved, and previous experience).

Managing Commercial Sex

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-117
Author(s):  
Siobhán Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Ample Opportunity ◽  
Imperial Period

This chapter focuses on individuals who facilitated the commercial sex transaction in late imperial Russia, namely brothel madams, pimps, and those who rented their properties to registered prostitutes. It examines the complex relationship between brothel madams and the police, as well as addressing the various roles given to madams in official legislation: guardians of public health, watchdogs, and money-makers for the local government. Brothel madams provided lucrative income for the authorities, both formally through taxation and informally through bribes and cash gifts. The rules of regulation enforced a paternalistic relationship between madams and registered prostitutes, as well as providing ample opportunity for exploitation. Finally, the chapter examines hidden managers, in the form of pimps and procurers, and their cultural significance in the late imperial period.

scholarly journals Über besondere Zwillingskonkordanzen

1956 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Hans Grebe
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Stones ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
Hereditary Diseases ◽  
Congenital Dislocation ◽  
Dislocation Of The Hip

SUMMARYReport about some observations with special concordance in 4 pairs of identical twins with kidney-stones, one pair of especialy concordant allergies, hyperthyreosis and cystical-glandular hyperplastic uterus and a pair of identical twin sisters, on-concordant congenital dislocation of the hip, resistant to all therapeutic essays.The especially concordance of the demonstrated twins is to be explained, that in the cases observed by the author is to suppose a stronger effect of chief gens and a lower manner of modifying by side gens or exogen ly ten years old, with particulary factors than in the ordinary states of twins with corresponding hereditary diseases.A finally demonstrated pair of non identicaly twin brothers with same deformities of the knees and same clinical symptoms) directs, that beside the same genotypus also the same exposition may realize especially twin concordances.

scholarly journals Twin Legacies: Victor and Vincent McKusick / Twin Studies: Twinning Rates I; Twinning Rates II; MZ Twin Discordance for Russell–Silver Syndrome; Twins’ Language Skills / Headlines: Babies Born to Identical Twin Couples; Identity Exchange; Death of Princess Ashraf (Twin); Yahoo CEO Delivers Identical Twins

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Medical Genetics ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
New Mother ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
Silver Syndrome ◽  
Mz Twins

The lives of the illustrious monozygotic (MZ) twins, Victor A. and Vincent L. McKusick, are described. Victor earned the distinction as the ‘Father of Medical Genetics’, while Vincent was a legendary Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court. This dual biographical account is followed by two timely reports of twinning rates, a study of MZ twin discordance for Russell–Silver Syndrome (RSS) and a study of twins’ language skills. Twin stories in the news include babies born to identical twin couples, a case of switched identity, the death of Princess Ashraf (Twin) and a new mother of twins who is also Yahoo's CEO.

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