CFP: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2026: Audiences, Subjects & Agents University of Nottingham Ningbo China June 4-6, 2026 Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 besidesthescreen.com

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Let's try this 2025 publication round-up one more time! SIG members: use this form to report any fan or audience studies pubs from 2025. We'll make a list of our collective accomplishments to share at SCMS. Deadline for submissions March 1. forms.gle/igLDtbu2Li6u...

Job alert! One-year in film studies!

Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.

Played Ghost of Yōtei? Please check out my research study on character identification! Please click this link depaul.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to participate or find out more info! @icagames.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social @scmsvideogames.bsky.social

The voting period for the 2026 SCMS election is now open and will close on February 27. To participate, one must be an active member and logged in. Get involved and vote for your representatives! Learn more here: cmstudies.org/page/Election2026

excited to see my article, "Waving the cancelling wand: Harry Potter fans and the cancellation of J.K. Rowling," with Guilherme Giolo and Simone Driessen, out in the world. and it's open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A few days left to submit your 500-word abstract for the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium 🫰 Deadline 📆 Feb 1 Find out more ▶️ transasianfan.wordpress.com We welcome your submissions 🫶 #CallForPapers #CFP #Fandom #FanStudies #AcademicSky #TransculturalFandom

This article draws from studies of contemporary watching to reframe screen audience studies to manage the behaviours, modes, and motives of watching that transcend television, streaming, and social media. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @drtvlotz.bsky.social

Following the Digital Darkside symposium at The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University last year, I'm co-editing a special issue of Journal of Digital Social Research on the topic of digital darkside. For further info see the CFP at www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...

Psst! Hey you! The FSNNA Organizing Committee is recruiting new volunteers to bring fresh perspectives & ideas to the committee, and we'd love it if you applied! Applications are open till Jan 31, 2026. Don't miss out!

#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences has been published! My chapter undertakes a content analysis of school-shooter fanfiction, arguing that it can function as a form of resistance to dominant cultural narratives. The book is available at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Here’s a friendly reminder about the conference we are running at the ITU in May: playingfutures.today Deadline for abstracts is February 16th, and the conference will take place May 20th to 22nd in Copenhagen. Look at our call for papers for more details: playingfutures.today/call-for-pap...

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/

Book Launch: Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia Date: 4 February 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm Venue: C-Centre (NAH313, Humanities Building, CUHK) cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...

Reminder to register for the SCMS 2026 by this Wednesday!

SCMS 2026 attendees: If you would like your panel, workshop or roundtable to be considered for FaAS SIG sponsorship, please email the panel, workshop or roundtable title and abstract and full list of all presenters to scmsfaas at gmail by 5pm CT Wednesday, January 14th.

Hi folks! I’m currently co-editing a special issue for GAME about queer and trans games studies. Find the full cfp here www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey..., deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2026!

it's a weird time to be excited, but i am nevertheless excited to hold Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-Fandom of Academia in my hand. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

Reminder to register by Wednesday!

Congrats to SIG members Bethan, Ben, and Simone for the kudos to their edited collection Participatory Culture Wars!

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ PAN, S., (2025) “Tielian in Mixed Realism: Real Person Fan Fiction and Collective Memory in Contemporary Chinese Fandom”, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 5(1). #FanStudies doi.org/10.3998/gs.7...

GSO Spotlight Program We’re thrilled to introduce a new initiative! If you’ve recently been published, completed your dissertation, received an award, or have other exciting news to share, we want to highlight you. Submissions can be made here: forms.gle/dpyQDLCoNKtL...

SIG members: We're compiling a list of fan- and audience studies publications by our members that came out in 2025. Enter yours here by Dec. 31, and we'll compile a list to share: forms.gle/V7zsgTowJahU...

Just a reminder that conference presenters must register by Wednesday, January 14, 2026 (5:00 PM CST).

🚨CFP Alert!🚨 "TV Matters" is a new series of short monographs (40K-50K words) on TV series- production history, cultural context, main themes, & fandom/audience reception Have a series you want to write on? Send short pitch! 🔗 www.intellectbooks.com/tv-matters #FanStudies #MediaStudies

Got a burning hot piece of music fan studies research? There's still time to submit to our special issue! As a reminder, we welcome the following formats: Articles (8k max words) Symposium (4k max words) Book Reviews (2.5k max words) Multimedia: 10 images or 5–8 minutes of audiovisual content.

Excited to announce that we are hosting the BDiGRA (British Digital Games Research Association) 2026 Conference at the University of South Wales. Conference Announcement and Call For Papers below bdigra.co.uk/bdigra-2026-...

Fanficforum Frankfurt is hosting its third student conference! Currently looking for contributors - students of all levels, degrees, fandoms are welcome to apply. The conference takes place in Frankfurt (aM), Germany, & on Zoom on 30.01.26. Deadline CfP: 14.12.25 fanficforum-ffm.de/fanficforum-...

Coming up in just under two hours! Check your email for your individual link to the Virtual Symposium.

📣 Reminder! Our SIG meeting will take place this Friday at 10am Central. Info on accessing the Virtual Symposium is supposed to be sent to all SCMS members in the next day or so.

Mine and Elliot Montpellier's special issue on Big Data Audiences is out in Convergence There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...

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_...

CFP: Queer Identities in East & Southeast Asia, to be held at the University of Edinburgh from 6–7 April 2026 queeresea.wordpress.com

SCMS notifications went out on Tuesday of last week. Tag us to promote your panel and celebrate your acceptance! We'll have info on panel sponsorships soon.

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

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!

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...

My book Theme Park Fandom is coming out in a much more affordable paperback edition. Pre-order here: www.routledge.com/Theme-Park-F...

What do we think, team?

Join us @cbuniversity.bsky.social! #job ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

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.

Meine Diss, jetzt zum Lesen / Download erhältlich! / My thesis, now available for reading / downloading! bibliographie.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstr... #FanStudies

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

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

Congratulations to SIG members @fanvidcrit.bsky.social and Samantha Close on the publication of their new book on fan video, and to all the SIG members who contributed essays to this book!

So pleased to see my newest journal article out in Open Access in Celebrity Studies. It's part of a special issue on celebrity and crisis and I'm looking forward to reading all of the other contributions. #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⭐ Intellect is at #FSNNA2025 Online, 23–26 Oct! ✨ 30% off all books w/ code INTELLECT30 📚 Explore journals incl. Journal of Fandom Studies + new International Journal of Disney Studies (free issue!) 📩 [email protected] 🔗www.intellectbooks.c...

Job alert! Due next weekend, so get your application in!