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SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG
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SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
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fcoppa.bsky.social
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
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October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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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
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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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!
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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augustaquarius.bsky.social
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

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“Somehow, Iger returned”: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs
This paper examines the concept of celebrity in crisis through the figure of the celebrity CEO. Focusing on the example of two recent CEOs of the Walt Disney Company, Bob Chapek and Bob Iger, the p...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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intellectbooks.bsky.social
⭐ 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!)

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October 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
Job alert! Due next weekend, so get your application in!
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
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
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
Job alert! Deadline Nov. 2!
murraysd.bsky.social Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · Oct 6
NYU-MCC is hiring! Asst. Prof in the area of “Media and Global Cities.” Please help us get the word out.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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!
October 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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ladylark.bsky.social
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....
Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies | Transformative Works and Cultures
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September 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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fanstudies.bsky.social
Call For Papers

POPULAR CULTURE TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS SUMMIT IN TAIWAN (KAOHSIUNG, 12-14
DECEMBER 2025).

www.thepctss.org
The Popular Culture Tourism Stakeholders Summit
This summit aims to provide a unique platform for open and interactive dialogue and discussion between policymakers, DMOs, academics, researchers, popular culture creators and fans, local communities,...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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einwaechter.bsky.social
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
ninaheise.bsky.social Nina Heise @ninaheise.bsky.social · Sep 25
The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.

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Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” | Fandom | Cultures | Research
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September 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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fanstudies.bsky.social
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).

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The Pluralism of Thai Boys Love Industry: Auteur Migration, Fan Showrunners, Labor Vulnerability, and Queer Potentiality - Wikanda Promkhuntong, 2025
This paper explores Boys Love media from Thailand through the lens of screen labor. This trajectory allows an examination of the pluralist landscape and complex...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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CFP for Digital Games Research Association. This year's theme is Intersectional Pleasures, so might be of interest to our members.
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social
🚨 *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"
A promotional graphic with "FSNNA 25" in dark boxes at the top left and right corner. Between those two boxes, in all capital letters reads "HEADLINER." Below that, centered and in bold letters reads the name "Alfred L. Martin, Jr." Below that, on the left it says the name of the headliner panel "Rejecting the Reputed Center of Reception Studies: Blackness, #Capital, and Power" and below that is smaller text it lists the other roundtable guests "Brienne Adams, Aymar Jean Esofferey, & Allyson F. Smith" To the right of that text is a black and white zoomed in photo of Martin's new book, "Fandom for Us, by Us," which shows a person sitting in front of a wall of TVs, viewed from behind.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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memorieschild.bsky.social
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.

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The Lizard People Don’t Want You to Read This - McFarland
The Lizard People Don’t Want You to Read This Essays on Conspiracy Theory in Popular Culture Edited by Robert Spinelli 978-1-4766-9485-6 978-1-4766-5625-0
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September 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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fanstudies.bsky.social
New special issue of Popular Communication

Queer Women's Fandom

#FanStudies

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/2...
Popular Communication
Queer Women's Fandom. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Popular Communication
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September 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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lennartspion.bsky.social
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...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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cwlamsa.bsky.social
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 🥰)!
September 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Congrats to SIG member @melstanfill.bsky.social whose new book FANDOM IS UGLY won the NCA's annual book award!
melstanfill.bsky.social Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · Sep 18
i guess this got announced today . . . Fandom Is Ugly won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
award announcement text: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture by Dr. Mel Stanfill is recognized with the Diamond Anniversary Book Award for its incisive and timely analysis of the hidden costs of participatory culture. Drawing on vivid case studies from video games, television, film, and politics, Stanfill demonstrates how fan networks that foster creativity and connection can also perpetuate harassment, sexism, racism, and exclusion. By exposing these dynamics with clarity and rigor, this book reshapes how scholars and the public understand the cultural and political stakes of fandom, making a profound contribution to the study of communication, community, and power.
September 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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intellectbooks.bsky.social
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

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September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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journal.transformativeworks.org
📣 #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
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September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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
OTW Recruitment
September 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that nominations for SIG co-chair are due tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 19!
September 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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iheartfatapollo.bsky.social
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: suzanne.scott@utexas.edu. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A flyer that reads "Do you own any fandom-related makeup or beauty products? If you are 18 or older, please consider answering a few questions about it by filling out this 10 min survey to support a research project on fan identities and embodiment" followed by a QR code.
September 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM