Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions
Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions
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重构货币化：粉丝绑定委员会中的补偿性做法和生成混合经济
作者：
Kimberly A. Kennedy;S. Buchsbaum
同人制作的工艺品和文本的货币化仍然是同人圈中一个有争议的问题。现有文献记录了粉丝拒绝明确以营利为目的的同人小说出版授权空间，如Kindle Worlds和FanLib，但对坚持礼品文化原则的手工艺和从业者的接受程度很低。同人捆绑--将同人作品捆绑成法典形式的做法--将作者许可、知识产权和同人小说货币化的争论中流行的艺术劳动报酬问题提到了前面。我们的研究利用了从31个粉丝绑定者收集的调查数据，并通过对可接受的粉丝行为和礼物文化的定义的看法，研究了他们如何证明他们接受佣金的决策是合理的。我们发现，那些收取佣金的装订商总体上拒绝了一个明确的营利性企业，而是将资金重新投入到他们的工艺中，加强了装订商和专员为粉丝礼物经济做出贡献的能力。在这里，活页夹提供了一个集中的模型，说明如何驾驭对同人自我保护、礼品经济和维持昂贵工艺的竞争性关注，并提供了对其他同人工艺的从业者如何类似地驾驭第三空间混合经济以证明补偿合理性的见解。
Monetization of fan-made crafts and texts remains a contentious issue in fandom. The existing literature documents fans’ rejections of explicitly for-profit, authorized spaces for fanfiction publication, such as Kindle Worlds and FanLib, but tenuous acceptance of crafts and practitioners who demonstrate adherence to gift culture principles. Fanbinding—the practice of binding fanworks into codex form—brings to the fore concerns of author permission, intellectual copyright, and compensation for artistic labor prevalent in arguments regarding fanfiction monetization. Our research draws from survey data collected from thirty-one fanbinders and examines how they justify their decision-making on taking commissions through perceptions of acceptable fannish behavior and definitions of gift culture. We found that binders who do take commissions overall reject an explicitly for-profit enterprise and instead reinvest funds back into their craft, strengthening binders and commissioners’ ability alike to contribute to the fandom gift economy. Here, binders offer a concentrated model for how to navigate competing concerns about fannish self-preservation, gift economy, and sustaining a costly craft, offering insights into how practitioners of other fancrafts might similarly navigate a third-space hybrid economy to justify compensation.