What does it take to be a varsity esports athlete in Canada? "Welcome to Saints Gaming," my paper on student-athletes' roles in shaping the institutions of Canada's first varsity esports program, is now published in Games and Culture! Read the full paper here doi.org/10.1177/1555... 🇨🇦 #GameStudies

New article in International Journal of Cultural Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Kim, D. O. (Donna), & Wu, F. (2025). Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Are you interested in social media and community outreach? Do you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? Do you want to create videos and connect with fellow fans on TikTok? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Learn more at: otw-news.org/mw63d42d

We argue for examining how media technologies and transnational cultural flows across diverse Asian contexts shape, circulate and contest queernesses and Asian-nesses, offering rich ground for epistemological and methodological innovation❤️

can’t believe today was the last day of @methodsmcr.bsky.social — had such a great time in the digital methods course and feel so lucky to have met so many brilliant emerging and established scholars. already looking forward to staying in touch as we all head off in all our different directions 💕

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Beginning this fall, Yonsei University (2nd highest-ranked school in Korea) Graduate School will waive tuition for all international students

CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2026-confere...

New article in Celebrity Studies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Ibrahim, K. (2025). Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila. Celebrity Studies, 1–7. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1939...

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

🌟call for research participants🌟 i'm looking for people who are (or have been) fans of #eurovision to join an online focus group about how fans think about & interact with the politics of the contest. more details on the study & how to join below. please sign up & share with your eurofan pals!

(1) I'm delighted that my article, "'If I started to identify as a bird, would I stop being human?' Networked Transphobia in Lesbian Popular Culture Spaces" is out in Popular Communication! doi.org/10.1080/1540... There are 50 free e-copies available at this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YT3JP...

Exciting new research on hate raids, from my time with the Digital Democracies Institute, has just been published. Congrats to the team! @pipsipirate.bsky.social , Maria Sommers, @albertolusoli.bsky.social, and @whkchun.bsky.social 🎉 doi.org/10.1177/1470...

I'm someone. thegeekiary.com/on-conclave-... #fanstudies #newpope

This is what the commodification of fandom looks like. Traditional publishing is exploiting fandom and fans. Using them to promote and pay for the art they’ve already read for free. Setting fanfic writer up for possible lawsuits and forever binding them and their the work to a bigot. #Romancelandia

Today is Karl Marx's birthday. All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.

For the wonderful folks at @ellipsus.com, I wrote a guest post about fic and generative AI! As people yank archives for LLMs or "finish" others' work with these tools, we're increasingly seeing AI used to create fic, too. But if you outsource the act of being a fan to AI, what does that leave you?

Finished reading @sachajudd.com's journey through RPF history and want more RPF commentary and analysis? WELL 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I am so happy that @michellehsho.bsky.social will be one of our keynotes 😄 They are an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and will talk about their new book "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies" 🏳️‍⚧️🏙️🌸➡️ ticket here: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

And SSHRC!

Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!

This is how you do it.

"Gaylor points to the possibility of “queering” even the most mainstream popular culture. [...] Under this rubric, Swift herself is not so much an object of a conspiracy as the conspiracy is an object of communal world-building for queer users and their allies." #taylorswift #fandom #academia

NEW: Columbia expelled & fired the president of its student workers’ union today, a day before contract negotiations were set to begin, per UAW The union is calling it “part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out…against the war on Gaza”

We all have intrinsic value. Governments and the billionaire class want to tie it to economic productivity as a means of propping up end stage capitalism. You don’t have to work to have value. You aren’t “less than” if you can’t work.

For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun – it’s sacred, a sociologist explains

Affect in fandom is out! 🥳 We LOVED working with authors on this volume on fandom, transmedia and games. This collection tackles creativity & content made by fans - their history AND their future (e.g. sustainable design). Download for free! 💜 #fanstudies library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Lady Gaga confirms the ‘Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)’ music video will be continued.

Affect in Fandom is out soon, which I co-edited with great colleagues! It's an open-access book with splendid scholarship on fan fic, cosplay and games. How do feelings, texts and memories shape fandom? What do fans create, and why? Find out in March! #mediastudies www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Join us in celebration of International Fanworks Day with our annual week-long challenge, the IFD Fanlore Challenge! From February 10th-16th, come celebrate fandom with us by completing fun editing challenges and earning our fun trope-themed badges: https://bit.ly/3EIPA4I

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

millennials will be like yeah i have a favorite opera and it's just The Black Parade (2006) by my chemical romance

a little late to post, but excited to share my article on queer female fan labour & girl crush k-pop groups is out in @popcommjournal.bsky.social! ✨💿 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Super excited to announce the article I wrote on Female Dating Strategy and the Femosphere is finally out!! This paper functions as the framing for my PhD dissertation on gendered online communities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @femmediastudies.bsky.social