Love this film!

I LOVE and cherish Taylor Swift when she is on her pen game (and will therefore be withholding the majority of my thoughts on TLOAS until I feel I have something properly constructive to say), but boy do I hate it when she revels in these lazy and deeply racialised "not like other girls" tropes

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

🚨 *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"

On view at Tulane University, and it was a joy to work on this. But you don’t have to visit campus to see it. Check out the digitized collection of Black New Orleans nightlife posters, 1979-1980, newly published online via the Tulane University Digital Library: libguides.tulane.edu/BlackNightli...

Gather round my friends- It's time to announce our 2nd headliner for the 2025 FSNNA Conference It's DR. MEL STANFILL!! They're a media studies scholar & associate prof (University of Central Florida) & will be leading a roundtable session on Oct. 25th titled " #Fandom Is..."

Absolutely do this. It especially helps those of us who choose not to have google alerts for our name or books and don’t look at ratings or reader comments. ☺️

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

come copyedit for @journal.transformativeworks.org !

Libraries also have many ways to watch media, including lots of things that aren't available to stream

Essential resource. Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Registration for the @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social conference is now open! Always a great event and all online Thu Oct 23 - Sun Oct 26, 2025 #FanStudies www.tickettailor.com/events/fanst...

This is fascinating... One of Japan's biggest hitmakers agreed to a songwriting contest with an AI programme trained on his music. The pop band AKB48 recorded a song by each "composer" - and let fans decide which one to release as a single. The AI won. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One thing I always emphasize to a newer journalist is that there's a balance between speed and accuracy that needs to be found, and the latter always trumps the former. It's better to be fifth to a story and correct than first and wrong. Feels like a lot of media orgs need to relearn that right now.

Great to see my friend @jenessawilliams.bsky.social quoted in this piece on Lofi Girl’s YouTube empire. www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...

Obviously the whole JADE album is great and she's always been a certified A+ Grade student of pop versatility, but I can't honestly say I was expecting her to pull off a song which reminds me of at least six British MySpace-era trends all in one. What a mind 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibNC...

“Mike Givens, 51, remembers listening to his Walkman on the bus but being instructed to leave it in his locker during school hours. He now belongs to a Reddit forum for iPod enthusiasts that has been flooded with students scrambling to prepare for phone bans.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...

It has been an interesting few years, but @memorieschild.bsky.social @drrossgarner.bsky.social and I are stepping down as editors for @popcommjournal.bsky.social T&F has put a call out for new editor / editorial team to take over. Please apply! think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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

Aca-Crime-Collegues Great conference led by Dr Charlotte Barnes which is a must for all you Crime folks out there: “An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture” For full details see link below. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

A cool CFP for academics studying podcasting! criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com

Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.

Absolutely staggered by the amount of the people content to doxx their own kids in the name of 'Back To School' posts

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & @lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: buff.ly/YDOflaI...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

Aug 29 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. @siric.bsky.social profiles 4 young climate advocates whose lives it changed—2 of whom fled New Orleans during Katrina as kids @teenvogue.com: "For them, combatting climate change, environmental racism, and structural inequality has become a calling."

psst: new Pop Conference call. Repost please. www.popconference.org

"Power doesn’t care about joy. Ultimately, it only cares about value, which means money. Trad publishing loves fanfic right now because it sees dollar signs instead of kudos." In our new piece, @tessagratton.bsky.social tackles the messy intersections between pro entertainment and fans right now:

This is funny and weirdly fascinating. "A kind of idiot ethnography, accidental moments of profundity from a cast of bewildered pensioners, Deliveroo drivers, and street drinkers, dispatches from a divided island" www.vice.com/en/article/b...

Pouring one out today for the OG Gym Teacher/English Teacher couple

Today's day of writing calls for Space 4 on repeat 🤍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0cz...

‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.

life as a grad student is being recommended a book and adding it to the list of books you need to read but can't because you have a book that you need to read that was recommended before it but you cant but you have another book you need to read that was recommended before that but you can't because

This piece from @annkpowers.bsky.social is such a thoughtful read. Between the 'get barrier' strategising and the competitive pressure to crack easter eggs/break records/be Spotify's top listener, I do wonder if (some) fans are forgetting that this is supposed to be fun www.npr.org/2025/08/18/g...

Loved this Guardian deep-dive with Jade www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Win a trip to a show of your choice at the Tiny Desk! Entering is free, but you can get extra entries and exclusive Tiny Desk merch when you donate to The NPR Network through the giveaway page. Your support means a lot in the face of recent federal funding cuts. Enter today 👉 tinyurl.com/22kyj72s

If you're researching #fandoms, #DIY, #zines or other forms of creative expression related to fan cultures, this CFP might be for you? Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on Music Fandom. Deadline for final articles 1 Jan 2026. For more info see the link!

Very excited that Men and Masculinities is officially starting their search for a new editorial team. Kristen, Joseph and I will rotate off our second term at the end of the year. Please share and apply if you're interested. Feel free to reach out: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & ‪@lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

Today is my birthday, and I'm not above leveraging that for book sales. As a gift to me, if you're interested in indie music 2000-2020 (and its gradual metamorphosis into pop), pre-order SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion and recirculate this post.

One of our neighbours children is learning to play the recorder. For weeks all we could hear were scales, but a few days ago they attempted 'Careless Whisper' and right now they're delivering a pretty stellar interpretation of 'Call Me Maybe'. Maybe the kids really are alright

A new newsletter is live! Containing my thoughts on recent releases from Lorde, Wet Leg, Little Simz, Wolf Alice and of course, Hayley Williams. I don't think Hayley HQ are on BlueSky yet, but I'm pretty pleased with my 'Ego...' playlist... jenessawilliams.substack.com/p/waxing-and...

Wrote about the joy and pain of attending Bad Bunny’s residency back home 🇵🇷 www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

Happy new Hayley Williams general release day to all who celebrate! The fan discourse has been A LOT, but at my end I'm really enjoying the political and self-exploratory nature of this project. This is my fave track so far, but very excited to get to know them all 💛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1t...

After a flurry of activity last week, Paramore's Hayley Williams just surprise-released 17 new songs via her website

If you are like the many academic book writers I know who were never taught a systematic way to revise a manuscript (and can therefore feel the writing process dragging on longer than you want it to), my next free workshop on August 6th is for you courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/edit...

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