making up fannish stuff, for posterity and beyond!

[sab]

All you all should be coming over to help edit fanlore.org. It's very easy to log in, and then those of us who toil over there would love some toiling help. For example, there's hardly any info on the "West Wing" page; come fill it up, and bring your favorite fics!

Also, for semantics purposes; help me with these questions below? Answer with the term you would most frequently use, or answer with the term you have most frequently heard if you don't prefer one answer over the other.

[Poll #1296784]

ETA: Comments! Keep 'em coming!

Love,
Sab

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

yeah, i've seen that usage around, too! but i also prefer it not be used that way.

-- my take on "media" in this context is not that audio and video are each a type of media which commonplace vidding combines, but that the overwhemlingly most common type of vid-- show footage edited to music-- is itself a medium, and a "multimedia" vid is a vid that combines show footage with another fandom medium, like manips. (does that make sense?)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

(does that make sense?)

It does, but it's wrong. ;) It's just what they were called from the late 70s until internet fandom / computer vidding took off, around the late 90s.