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Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.

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Wrote a review of Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland by William Mccarthy for the new issue of Journal of Fandom Studies.

In short, it's excellent.

#FanStudies #ThemeParkStudies

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Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) | Intellect
Review of: Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 236 pp., ISBN 978-1-49685-472-8, p/bk, USD 30
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November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It's publication day! My book is now officially out and available to buy! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

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November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the eleventh biennial Slayage Conference (SC11).

Illinois State University in Normal Illinois, 9-12 July 2026

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November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🚨CFP Alert!🚨

▫️Special Issue: Music Fandoms
▫️Journal: Transformative Works & Cultures
▫️Article Submission Deadline: Jan 1, 2026

More info: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

#FanStudies #MusicFandom
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November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🎸 🖤 🤘 New publication just dropped, and this time it's open access! 🎸 🖤 🤘

Williams, J. N., & Sobande, F. (2025). Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). lnkd.in/eMmjq6ue
Image including an abstract for an academic journal article titled 'Note to scene: Gender, race and rose-tinted nostalgia in emo': Abstract Twenty years on from its mainstream breakthrough, the popularity of emo music has resurged, offering new opportunities to appraise its cultural legacy. While acknowledging the creative and cathartic qualities of emo as fans, we reflect on how the intersections of race and gender have (not) been thoroughly engaged with in prior research on the genre. We also demonstrate how improvements concerning representation in emo are still constrained, with people of colour (POC) – particularly Black women – carrying heavy self-advocating responsibilities. Through a two-part case study – first, the marketing and booking of When We Were Young festival and second, a reflexive first-person analysis of music journalism surrounding emo’s ‘new wave’ acts – we explore how emo has been (re)branded for old(er) and new(er) generations in the 2020s, how musical belonging and expertise is negotiated within the culture, and how nostalgia narratives can serve to romanticize emo’s exclusionary past at the expense of its more inclusive future. Keywords: Black alt, emo, gender, music festivals, music journalism, nostalgia, popular music, punk, race, subculture
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#CFP Red Alert!

We are organizing an international #symposium on #StarTrek in September 2026 in Paris, for the 60th anniversary of the franchise. 🖖

We are pleased to announce that Dr. @smittermeier.bsky.social will deliver the keynote address of the symposium!
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The full Special Issue of Celebrity Studies on Celebrity Crises and Conflicts is now out!

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November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New issue of @intellectbooks.bsky.social Journal of Fandom Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Volume 13, Issue 2 | Intellect
Intellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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My review of Briony Hannell's brilliant book 'Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr' is now available in Feminist Media Studies ✨ @femmediastudies.bsky.social
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Feminist fandom: media fandom, digital feminisms, and tumblr
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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May 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Will Modern-Day Stan Culture Ruin The Experience Of Our Favourite Bands?
In 2007, being a Paramore stan meant begging your mum to let you dye your hair red. In 2025, being a music fan is taking on a different meaning.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Prideful Actions, Shameful Identities Hybridity in International K-pop Fan Communities

Samantha James in:
Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach

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Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography
Contributors to this volume contend that in the realm of research on human society, online and digital communication can no longer be relegated to a separate cyber space and should instead be consider...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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New article on larp, activism and deliberation in this collection, out in December!
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy, Volume 1
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy brings together scholars and educators who explore the educational potential of analog role-playing games (tabletop role-playing games and ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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OUT NOW

Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in #Asia edited by Celia Lam & Jackie Raphael-Luu www.bloomsbury.com/9780755655021

Coverage includes #bromance in Bollywood, #K-Pop, YouTube stars & more! 🤩

New in the Asian #Celebrity and #Fandom Studies series: https://bit.ly/4oddqat
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now with Book Reviews:
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...
A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture | Intellect
Much has been written when it comes to world-building, the nature of fan cultural practices, affect and digital media platforms. Each contributes in their own way to the field of media and cultural st...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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In a new essay for the Forum section of Celebrity Studies, I share some thoughts on how YouTube music critic and digital celebrity Anthony Fantano employs memes to build his dedicated fanbase, and how it relates to his murky digital history: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1939...
“Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?”: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes
Published in Celebrity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The DePaul Pop Culture Conference theme this year is Remixing Pop Music, to be held at DePaul in Chicago on May 2. If you're interested in the theme, you can submit an idea for a presentation here (by Jan. 31): popcultureconference.com/2026-remix-p...
RSVP 1 — DePaul Pop Culture Conference
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Congrats to SIG member Mel Stanfill for winning the Diamond Anniversary Book for FANDOM IS UGLY from the National Communication Association! We love to see fan studies-related scholarship getting national attention!
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Honored to have Fandom Is Ugly recognized by NCA.
Plaque for the NCA diamond anniversary book award for Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Wicked: For Good Is For the Gelphie Shippers
After 22 years of fighting in the fandom trenches, the Wicked films have reinforced one of the most ardent sapphic ships in fan-fiction history.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Closing out our Fans & AI section, Jing Bai asks us to reconsider the relationships between humans and AI in "Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal"! Read their Symposium piece in #TWC46 today!
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Poon, H. (2025). ‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(6), 1740-1757.

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‘I don’t want to care’: Fandom, politics and affect in post-2019 Hong Kong - Hannah Poon, 2025
The popularity of Mirror, a 12-member boy group, skyrocketed in Hong Kong in 2021 and attracted a mass following of local fans. This fan wave, however, took ove...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️

From Mainstream to Digital: South African Perspectives on Participatory Media Cultures

Edited by Natalie Le Clue; Catherine Duncan; Janelle Vermaak-Griessel

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From Mainstream to Digital: South African Perspectives on Participatory Media Cultures
From Mainstream to Digital explores the complex landscape of digital participation in a country where both digital and traditional media interact in shapin
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November 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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New article in Media, Culture & Society ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Sender, K., Beatrys, B., Foster, M. E., Chen, T., & Wang, H. (2025). Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 17.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Ludomythologies’

Including ‘Mytholudic ecocriticism: Towards an understanding of ecopolitical Ludomythologies in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure’ by David Harold Ten Cate

https://ow.ly/3Rto50XqY4J
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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SIG members, mark your calendar for our annual SIG meeting on Friday, Dec. 5 at 10am Central / 16:00 UTC. Links and instructions will be sent that week.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Check out the article "Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures", authored by Do Own (Donna) Kim and Fang Wu, in our Online First section.

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Online First. "Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures". Do Own (Donna) Kim (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) and Fang Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China).
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM