Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study By Hengrui Luo doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts By Indira Neill Hoch doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki By Justin Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020) By Sarah Breyfogle doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024) By Maria K. Alberto doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) By Rebecca Williams doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022) By Deniz Yilmaz doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

New conspiracy theory just dropped: What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

My hot take is that all conference type events should be minimally hybrid events. There are ways to make it more secure and there’s ways to be intentional about who gets invited, but I don’t think that should hinge on whether someone can be there in person, given COVID and general accessibility. 🤷🏽‍♀️

SIG members, don't forget that our event with @alfredmartin.bsky.social is a week from today. Al will be talking about his new book, FANDOM FOR US, BY US. Please register here to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/fandomforus

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.

Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

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_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Textual poachers and the civic imagination: A qualitative study of the fan reception of Disney’s Mulan (1998) on Pinterest By Chenglong Zhou doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

I was going to be excited no matter which poem won the Hugo, because I was and am excited about there *being* a poetry Hugo. But I'm extra excited because I have loved the poem since before it was published. Officially best. Hats off, @swantower.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the single most talented, prescient, hilarious, and underappreciated satirists this country ever produced. a man who actually called it like he saw it youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Yes! I did this one & it was wonderful. Planning to reprise in a fall class s25bbb.ryancordell.org/pages/assign...

Goddamn it, Gillen.

Academia has a lot of problems, and the cost of accessing research is certainly one of them. I also think @thetransfemininereview.com is doing important and lovely work. However, a lot of the arguments in this thread are not fair to people laboring within the academy & I want to talk about why. 🧵

Superman and Fantastic Four both seem to be asking the same question: "Can you make a sincere, heartfelt superhero film in 2025?" I'd submit that the answer is "no" and that this is because the genre relies on America having a positive global reputation.

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

I've noticed an uptick in comments/bookmarks on my fics noting the "short" length. Is fandom really moving towards an expectation of 50k+ works? Are shorter works really considered "lesser" nowadays?

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

Abstracts and info are up online for The Magical Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture virtual conference on July 24 & 25 www.popcrn.org

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Funny, isn’t this how the West always describe the media in authoritarian states work? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles 4.1 is out now! Including ‘Learning from the social lives of shoes: A cultural approach to sustainability’ by Alexandra Sherlock. Access the issue via discover 👉 intellectdiscover.co... @fashionnatascha.bsky.social

Opinion: Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else.

buttondown.com/charliejane/... I found this really insightful and inspiring. I'm pretty sure the author is @charliejane.bsky.social Thanks to @shinyhexagon.com for suggesting it.

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵

"we rob students of their reason for writing by giving it to them. “Write 500 words about the causes of the Civil War, because I said so.” It’s like forcing someone to do a bunch of jumping jacks in the hopes that they’ll develop an intrinsic desire to do more jumping jacks."

New blog post up! "I’d like to “delve” into how AI is “fostering” changes in writing" Research shows student writing changed post-ChatGPT: -The word “foster” saw a 10.8X increase -"Delve” is used 10.5X more often -Other cool findings! meresophistry.substack.com/p/id-like-to...

Deep breaths. Let me play some soothing ukulele for you while I teach you how to disable message previews on your phone so cops and nosy roommates can’t see who is messaging you even when your phone is locked 😘

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

Submissions for the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference are now open! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital. 🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk ✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords ⏰Deadline: Friday, May 16 Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...

move slowly and build things

Social mobility? Female doctors? An emperor's sister who evaded assassination three times? There's a lot you may not know about the women of Ancient Rome: gty.art/4bSTQuF

A really important lesson to learn from Star Trek is never go to a conference because some shit is gonna happen on your way home.

American students define “fan" for a fellow student from Japan, 1923: “...A fan is a person utterly devoted to some pursuit." "Fans keep posted on all the latest news." "They never tire of interesting everybody else." "In other words, a fan is an enthusiast….” (The Epworth Era, Oct. 1923: 57).