... “fanvids.” A form of video production overwhelmingly dominated by women, vidding is also one of the oldest ongoing forms of remix. Vidders typically date their art to 1975, the year that Kandy Fong, inspired by the Beat- les’ video for “Strawberry Fields Forever,” first created a slideshow...

... YouTube was founded in the spring of 2005. That summer, vidders — ­ the overwhelmingly female community of video editors who cre- ate fan music video out of television and film footage — ­gathered in Chicago to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of vidding with a dance party and two cakes: one...

... discussion for use in media studies classes — ­being proposed as an appropriate venue for vidders to make their works available.3 From an academic perspective, this is an elegant solution, but the issues it raises within vidding cul- ture are not so simple. In Fan Cultures, Matt Hills reminds us...