AO3 case study: how fans built an archive outside platform logic
Ad-free and donation-funded, Archive of Our Own combines open-source software, volunteer labor, and a taxonomy designed to preserve fanworks.
Ad-free and donation-funded, Archive of Our Own combines open-source software, volunteer labor, and a taxonomy designed to preserve fanworks.
Before social media, fans were already organizing campaigns, conventions, zines and their own stories, changing the series’ fate and the relationship between audiences and franchises.
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