Hawk's View

Who knew Harry Pot­ter’s magic pow­ers were for real? Okay, ex­cuse my Muggle-like ig­noran­ce, but I didn’t be­lieve it until I at­tended a sess­ion at the re­cent Nation­al Con­fer­ence on Media Re­form in Bos­ton, or­ganized by the non-profit or­ganiza­tion Free Press. This par­ticular panel was head­lined “Pop Cul­ture War­riors: How On­line Fan Com­munit­ies Are Or­ganiz­ing to Save the World.”