And in fact if you have a good mod and a good audience the panel is completely optional. Panels at transformative works-centered cons very rarely have panelists; they're usually seminar-style, with one or two moderators leading a discussion among all the attendees.
When fans from fanfic communities started adopting WisCon, this was a big cultural barrier--a lot of people who had only experienced seminar-style panels found the traditional panel format uncomfortably hierarchical. This was not a criticism the established crowd at WisCon had expected to hear.
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Date: 2017-08-08 07:30 pm (UTC)When fans from fanfic communities started adopting WisCon, this was a big cultural barrier--a lot of people who had only experienced seminar-style panels found the traditional panel format uncomfortably hierarchical. This was not a criticism the established crowd at WisCon had expected to hear.