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!

Join us for our first event of 25-26! A discussion of Fandom for Us, by Us by @alfredmartin.bsky.social, on Friday, Nov. 14 on Zoom. More info and registration: tinyurl.com/fandomforus

Job alert! Deadline Nov. 2!

Former SIG co-chair Rebecca Williams is quoted in a recent article in the Atlantic about Netflix, along with SIG member Abigail DeKosnik. We love when the pop press interviews scholars!

I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Call For Papers POPULAR CULTURE TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS SUMMIT IN TAIWAN (KAOHSIUNG, 12-14 DECEMBER 2025). www.thepctss.org

Call for a Themed Issue on “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”! There will also be a workshop on Feb 27th, 2026! Authors are invited to present and develop their ideas in dialogue with peers. The workshop will be in 2026, on Feb. 27th (Marburg University). Deadline: December 1st! #FanStudies

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Promkhuntong, W. (2025). The Pluralism of Thai Boys Love Industry: Auteur Migration, Fan Showrunners, Labor Vulnerability, and Queer Potentiality. Television & New Media, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1527...

CFP for Digital Games Research Association. This year's theme is Intersectional Pleasures, so might be of interest to our members.

🚨 *insert alarm sounds* 🚨 It's time to announce our 2025 FSNNA #FanStudies Conference's 3rd headliner... It's DR. ALFRED L. MARTIN!! He's an assoc. prof (Uni of Miami) & will be leading the session on Oct. 26- "Rejecting the Reputed Center of #ReceptionStudies: #Blackness, #Capital, and Power"

I've got a chapter in this collection on The X-Files (obviously) and have just found it it's available for pre-order from McFarland's website. I can't wait to read the rest of the essays. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

New special issue of Popular Communication Queer Women's Fandom #FanStudies www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...

It was an absolute pleasure to review @briony.bsky.social's brilliant book on feminist fandom for the EJCS. If you haven't bought her book yet (or forgot to ask your university library to purchase it), please let my review convince you to do so immediately: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Last week I defended my thesis, "Yearning Hours: Desire, Darcymania, and Readerly Attachments in the Digital Jane Austen Fandom," published by Linköping University Press. It can now be ordered to your local library (or hmu for the PDF 🥰)!

Congrats to SIG member @melstanfill.bsky.social whose new book FANDOM IS UGLY won the NCA's annual book award!

Film International Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’ This themed issue of Film International will explore the complex relationship between horror culture per se and cinematic expression. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 👉ow.ly/XRiK50WZfAf

📣 #TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC46, our annual general issue! This issue, however, holds some new and exciting features. Dig in at this link: buff.ly/EHJTStO

Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle #AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The #OTW is Recruiting! otw-news.org/w8thejrv

Friendly reminder that nominations for SIG co-chair are due tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 19!

Have you ever purchased makeup or beauty projects based on your fandom? If you are 18 years or older, please fill out this 10 minute survey for a research project on embodied fan identities. Share widely! Contact with any questions: [email protected]. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium “Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

SIG members, remember we're having an election! Nominations for co-chair are due Friday, Sept. 19: forms.gle/w2g2C9cm4uq1...

The special issue of Critical Studies in Television on the 40th anniversary of EastEnders that I edited with the fantastic Christine Geraghty is now officially out! 6 great articles & an Editorial, all open access! journals.sagepub.com/toc/CST/curr...