New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Zhang, X., & Wang, Y. (2026). Swiping through the stars: Exploring identity and intimacy through astrology sensemaking on Douyin. New Media & Society, 28(7), 3368-3387. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Pawelloi, S. L., & Safitri, R. (2026). Fandom Communication And Participatory Culture In Digital Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review. INJECT (Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication), 11(2), 2295–2324. #FanStudies doi.org/10.18326/inj...

New Review ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds By Max Jack, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024 Stephen R. Millar Published in: Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 (2026) Pages: 142-145 #FanStudies www.ictmd.ie/1064208/womv...

"Embracing queerness in contemporary pirate fiction is an act of narrative continuance," @lincodega.com writes in our latest. "To ignore queerness onboard a pirate ship is to ignore the history of pirates—and, more importantly, the stories of resistance they inspired."

The fourth and final part of #Draculae is out. The whole series I’ve wondered whether the Powers of Darkness stories are fan fiction - if not, why not? @elizabethminkel.bsky.social of fansplaining.com discusses what makes fan fiction fan fiction. Listen/read via theallusionist.org/transformation

Hello everyone, I'm currently writing about fan experiences with collective protest actions against media companies such as boycotts, letter campaigns etc. If you are above 18 and would like to participate please get in touch! More details in the form: forms.gle/FbgMDV1SfqkC...

Toi aussi tu es fan de Madonna? Toi aussi tu te déhanches sur Hung up? Alors ce questionnaire est pour toi! fr.surveymonkey.com/r/HH3PNQZ cc @nachtergael.bsky.social @annebesson.bsky.social @bretonjustine.bsky.social @drjulieescurignan.bsky.social (RT apprécié)

Here's the cover of my upcoming edited book, since it didn't show up on the preview in my last post... #FanStudies #DesignResearch

New book review in The Journal of Popular Culture ⬇️⬇️⬇️ K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu From the 1990s to Today. By Areum Jeong, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2026. 176 pp. $24.95 (paperback). Li Wei #FanStudies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

CFP: Star Wars 50 Years: Pasts, Presents, and Futures le.ac.uk/media/resear...

CFP: Intimately Disconnected 4-5 December 2026 (Friday and Saturday) The University of Sydney digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Noemi Nuñez, successfully defended her dissertation, “How Far Do These Roots Go Down?”: An Exploration of Latinx and Latina Fans on Representation in Disney’s Encanto, today. NO revisions!

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The Swift Shift – promotional marketing (Taylor’s version): How social media and fan engagement shape album release strategies Authors: Angela Asuncion, Angelique Nairn & Rebecca Trelease Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 15, 1, 2026. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1386/ajpc...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Misra, Aman and Love, Adam William (2026) "National Belonging and Cricket Fandom: Narrative Storytelling by Indian Premier League (IPL) Teams on Instagram," Journal of Global South Sport Studies: Vol. 1: Iss. 3, Article 4. #FanStudies scholarworks.umb.edu/jgsss/vol1/i...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Turner, M., Fitzpatrick, D., & Lee Ludvigsen, J. A. (2026). Intergenerational (In) Securities in English Football Fandom: Locality, Loyalty and Legacy. The Sociological Review, 0(0). #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Sugden, J., Gransden, C., Hindmarsh, M., Faulkner, C., & Khan, P. (2026). Football Fan Culture as Resistance: The Alternative Hegemony of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks Network. The Sociological Review, 0(0). #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Dong, R., & Zhou, L. (2026). Imagining happy ageing: Shipping older female celebrities in China. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Viljoen, A. (2026). Violence as Foreplay, Denial as Devotion: Stereotyping, Romanticised Violence, and the Gratifications of the Gallavich Fandom in Shameless (2011–2016). Critical Arts, 1–18. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/0256...

SIG members, are you looking for co-panelists for #SCMS27? We've opened a channel in the SIG Discord where you can post CFPs, recruit each other, and otherwise connect. If you need an invite to the Discord, send us a DM.

reupping this as the syllabus deadline approaches. i am looking for a couple more #fanstudies articles by graduate students to round out the week of emerging scholars.

Our latest is live! ⚖️ @bookshop.bsky.social reports on the criminalization of creativity around the world, esp queer and/or erotic works. Recent rulings re: an Australian erotica author and a Russian fic writer signal just how worrying the current climate is. Read our listen to an audio version:

Call for Papers! – Between Screens: Video Games, Film, Television and Transmedia Exchange Editors: Dr Michael Samuel and Dr Richard Cole Deadline: 7 August 2026 bristoldigitalgamelab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/06/26/c...

New issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/issue/vi...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gendered Lyrics in Gor Mahia FC Fandom Songs #FanStudies utafitionline.com/index.php/jr...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ O’Regan, M., & Choe, J. (2026). Pottourism: A blessing or curse for British tourist attractions? Tourism and Hospitality Research, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CFP: 4th International Conference on Literary and Film Tourism 22, 23 and 24 March 2027 University of Groningen (The Netherlands) www.cett.es/en/internati...

New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The Aftermath of the Korean Wave: K-pop Fandom(s) Facing a Shift from Sub-culture to ‘Mainstream’ In: An Alternative Globalization Author: Mathieu Berbiguier #FanStudies brill.com/display/book...

Looking forward to digging into The Popcultr Summit The Fandom Advantage Report, summarising the key discussions from the event I participated in a few weeks ago. #FanStudies Check it out here : popcultr.events

Romance writers wanted! Please share your thoughts on AI for a research project being conducted by Bridget Kies of Oakland University. Soliciting published and unpublished authors for interviews. More info: bridgetkies.com/romance-and-... #romance #romancelandia #romanceauthors

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Shimauchi, S., Kim, H. J., & Zhou, M. E. (2026). Between de-queering and re-queering: Transfiguring ‘bromance’ as a continuum of Boys’ Love in East Asia. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 29(4), 678-697. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Zhu, H., Tang, J., & Zhang, Z. (2026). Rethinking the “K” of K-pop: How non-Korean K-pop groups negotiate identity between the Korean market and globalized industry. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 29(4), 619-639. #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Botorić, V., & Geraghty, L. (2026). Affective economies: prestige, access and emotional intensity from comic conventions in Abu Dhabi, Osaka, and Mexico City. Popular Communication, 1–17. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...

New Open Access book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fandom Democracy? Celebrity Leaders and New Forms of Citizens’ Engagement LUIGINO CECCARINI #FanStudies ora.uniurb.it/handle/11576...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ “Horror in Defence of the Planet!”: Sustainability and Fan Cultures at the European Genre Film Festival Russ Hunter & Alexia Kannas #FanStudies comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-artic...

Forthcoming new book ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies www.routledge.com/Queer-Womens...

“It was hard to get pitches placed about other shows, but editors still wanted the dragons. … What started as a hobby and became a job soon turned into a life raft I quietly resented.” @michejaw.bsky.social writes about the Game of Thrones media industrial complex from the inside:

CFP: Geographies of Horror Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2026 May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia) call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/06/...

Slayage 11, July 9-12 at Illinois State University, has more time to submit your #Buffy #cfp #firefly for online or in person academic conference #academicsky call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... My review of “Disability and Fandom” by Katherine Anderson Howell was published today in Transformative Works and Cultures 48, Guest Edited by Lauren Rouse & Olivia Johnston Riley. Check it out!

#TBT to T&T alum Carissa Baker's 2022 article, "Creating virtual homes during COVID-19: #HomemadeDisney and theme park fandom’s response to crisis." Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I think we may need a special issue of Transformative Works of World Cup fans transformed by the food they are eating in the US. @fanstudies.bsky.social

#TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC48, a special issue on Disability and Fandom guest edited by Olivia Johnston Riley and Lauren Rouse! Dive in at this link: rb.gy/kose15

this renewal notice reminds me that it's time to start building a panel for #scms27. i have two ideas: 1) computational methods in #fanstudies and/or fan fiction studies specifically, or 2) something platform studies related where i can talk about my work on AO3. anybody interested? it's in Canada!

Stephan Michael Schröder’s “Possessing Actors and Actresses: Theater Stars and Early Film Stars on Postcards in Comparison” analyzes why fans collected postcard images of stars, across late-19th-C. theater and early-20th-C. cinema. #FanStudies #FandomHistory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 10. K-Pop: Affective Ownership and Digital Fandom In Planet Digital A Global Media Cultures Reader Edited by: Aswin Punathambekar , Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray #FanStudies www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Mermaid fanfiction 🤝 King Alfred the Great... Somehow both ended up in the peer review pipeline at the same time. 🧜‍♀️📜 Delighted to see my mermaid article now published online in The Journal of Fandom Studies, with the Alfred article hopefully following before long. ✨ #FanStudies #FandomStudies

Just sat down for a chat with the wonderful @friede.bsky.social. Excited for you to hear our conversation about D&D, Actual Play, Fan Communities and Utopia/Dystopia!

After equality: queer television, fan labour, and sapphic memory in Taiwan Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li Date 1 July 2026 Time 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Venue SOAS Main Building www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Fandom Encyclopedia: I’m seeking authors for 1000-word entries in a forthcoming Pop Culture Fandoms encyclopedia, published by Bloomsbury Press. Please email 200-300 word abstracts to [email protected] by Aug 30, 2026!