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Tom Phillips
Researcher at University of East Anglia
Publications - 15
Citations - 111
Tom Phillips is an academic researcher from University of East Anglia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fandom & Music industry. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 15 publications receiving 105 citations.
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Fandom and beyond : online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom
TL;DR: Kozinets et al. as discussed by the authors examined the fans of filmmaker and comedian Kevin Smith, investigating the ways in which community members negotiate and categorise their fandom and relationships with both each other and a communicative, media-literate producer.
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Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
Tom Phillips,John Street +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models, and show how a variety of factors, including generic conventions, knowledge and experience, and wider social values, contribute to attitudes to copyright.
When Film Fans Become Fan Family: Kevin Smith Fandom and Communal Experience
TL;DR: This article examined how fans who attend "meet-ups" categorise themselves in relation to those who do not, as well as those not "active" online, and the extent to which Kevin Smith fandom becomes secondary to the group's family dynamic.
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“Don't clone my indie game, bro”: Informal cultures of videogame regulation in the independent sector
TL;DR: In the contemporary games sector, independent developers feel there is an inadequate level of protection for their intellectual property, particularly with regards to game clones as mentioned in this paper, and there is also a sense that neither players nor policy-makers completely understand the specificities of how IP may be creatively, if not legally infringed.