I’m Nele Noppe, or unjapanologist/非実在日本学者 in many
online places. Researcher, translator, copywriter and activist, mainly
interested in fan culture, open culture and technology, and Japan.
日本語OK. My fannish tumblr is elsewhere - ask and ye shall
receive. MY COMPANY The Open Japan Group is my research and language
services company. We do consulting on the media business and open
culture, Japanese-English translation, content writing, and
copyediting. We’re trying out various ways of making that sort of
services more accessible, so that we can help not just businesses but
also non-profits, educators, and researchers. MY RESEARCH Mostly on
the intersections between fan culture and open culture/open source -
tech, copyright, new business models, online communities, Japanese fan
practices, etc. Some of my work: The cultural economy of fanwork in
Japan: dōjinshi exchange as a hybrid economy of open source cultural
goods (PhD thesis)Social networking services as platforms for
transcultural fannish interactions: deviantART and pixivWhy we should
talk about commodifying fanwork More papers and presentations on my
Academia.edu account and my research wiki.
