Simone
@simoned.bsky.social
Assistant professor in Media and Popular Culture
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✨A sneak peek into the first results of our co-creative World Café
🔎We discussed #TrustInScience #OpenScience & #SciCom, unveiling complex issues and thought-provoking paths for future actions.
📌 IANUS | POIESIS | VERITY final event, Brussels
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🔎We discussed #TrustInScience #OpenScience & #SciCom, unveiling complex issues and thought-provoking paths for future actions.
📌 IANUS | POIESIS | VERITY final event, Brussels
🚀Stay tuned for the next updates!
May 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Hi folks! I’m very excited to announce details of a one-day international symposium I’m hosting on Thursday 29 May 2025 (09:00–17:30) at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
You can find more information on @ucdischool.bsky.social’s website: www.ucd.ie/ics/events/r...
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You can find more information on @ucdischool.bsky.social’s website: www.ucd.ie/ics/events/r...
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April 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hi folks! I’m very excited to announce details of a one-day international symposium I’m hosting on Thursday 29 May 2025 (09:00–17:30) at @ucddublin.bsky.social.
You can find more information on @ucdischool.bsky.social’s website: www.ucd.ie/ics/events/r...
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You can find more information on @ucdischool.bsky.social’s website: www.ucd.ie/ics/events/r...
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. @simoned.bsky.social talks about the differences practices, techniques and strategies that can be used in fanspiracy and we see these in Swift fandom as well as e.g. QAnon. Simone had talked to Swifties across the globe and asked about Easter egg hunting which she's focusing on today. #scms25
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
. @simoned.bsky.social talks about the differences practices, techniques and strategies that can be used in fanspiracy and we see these in Swift fandom as well as e.g. QAnon. Simone had talked to Swifties across the globe and asked about Easter egg hunting which she's focusing on today. #scms25
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Next up is @simoned.bsky.social talking about Taylor Swift fandom and conspiratorial and participatory play. Those at the symposium we ran yesterday will recognise both mine and Simone's papers, and you can also read more about fanspiracy in our Convergence special issue.
April 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Next up is @simoned.bsky.social talking about Taylor Swift fandom and conspiratorial and participatory play. Those at the symposium we ran yesterday will recognise both mine and Simone's papers, and you can also read more about fanspiracy in our Convergence special issue.
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And our panel is starting! First up is @anthonydannar.bsky.social, giving a shout out to a new collection on fandom edited by @natalieleclue.bsky.social which me and @simoned.bsky.social also have a chapter in. #scms25
April 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And our panel is starting! First up is @anthonydannar.bsky.social, giving a shout out to a new collection on fandom edited by @natalieleclue.bsky.social which me and @simoned.bsky.social also have a chapter in. #scms25
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Melodies of Malice: Understanding How AI Fuels the Creation and Spread of Extremist Music gnet-research.org/2024/12/11/m...
Melodies of Malice: Understanding How AI Fuels the Creation and Spread of Extremist Music - GNET
gnet-research.org
March 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Melodies of Malice: Understanding How AI Fuels the Creation and Spread of Extremist Music gnet-research.org/2024/12/11/m...
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The ebook version of an edited collection me and my friend/colleague Steff El Madawi contributed a chapter to is now available! We wrote about digital witnessing and forensic fandom, focusing on Nicola Bulley. Let me know if you want to read it but can't access it. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Playing Their Own Private Detectives: Digital witnessing, Forensic Fandom and True Crime Narratives
On 27 January 2023 a missing person alert was raised for Nicola BulleyBulley, Nicola, a woman who disappeared after dropping her daughters off at school. Lancashire Constabulary issued an appeal for a...
link.springer.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The ebook version of an edited collection me and my friend/colleague Steff El Madawi contributed a chapter to is now available! We wrote about digital witnessing and forensic fandom, focusing on Nicola Bulley. Let me know if you want to read it but can't access it. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Journalism's Impact on Public Trust in Science
💡presenting insights from the IANUS project and findings from recent media panels on the evolving role of science journalism in fostering public trust
Journalism's Impact on Public Trust in Science
💡presenting insights from the IANUS project and findings from recent media panels on the evolving role of science journalism in fostering public trust
March 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Nice to see @simoned.bsky.social quoted at length in this. As a former Gaiman fan, who still has all his books and is wondering what to do about them, I've been following this closely. And obviously believe the victims.
Boa matéria com comentários de minha colega pesquisadora Simone Driessen
www.polygon.com/features/510...
www.polygon.com/features/510...
Inside the Neil Gaiman subreddit and other fan forums, fans are shaken, angry, and fighting back
Reddit mods explain the changing tone online after the latest report on Gaiman’s alleged sexual abuse and assaults
www.polygon.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nice to see @simoned.bsky.social quoted at length in this. As a former Gaiman fan, who still has all his books and is wondering what to do about them, I've been following this closely. And obviously believe the victims.
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Fandom is allang niet meer iets voor pubermeisjes. We spraken met @simoned.bsky.social (Simone Driessen) over langetermijnfandom, nu in alle podcastapps ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-199-lang...
Afl 199: Langetermijn fandom | Onder Mediadoctoren
ondermediadoctoren.nl
January 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Fandom is allang niet meer iets voor pubermeisjes. We spraken met @simoned.bsky.social (Simone Driessen) over langetermijnfandom, nu in alle podcastapps ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-199-lang...
Chicago here we come!
I am very excited that our panel "Reactionary Politics, Fandom and Participatory World Building" was accepted by @scmstudies.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to presenting with some very smart people: @linepetersen.bsky.social @memorieschild.bsky.social,
Simone Driessen, and Katrine Pedersen.
Simone Driessen, and Katrine Pedersen.
January 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Chicago here we come!
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Tá online a parte 2 do dossiê Cultura Pop, Estudos de Fãs e Indústrias Criativas que organizei junto com @simoned.bsky.social para a revista Brazilian Creative Industries Journal. Thanks @vanessavaliati.bsky.social for helping us edit it
periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
Brazilian Creative Industries Journal
periodicos.feevale.br
December 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Tá online a parte 2 do dossiê Cultura Pop, Estudos de Fãs e Indústrias Criativas que organizei junto com @simoned.bsky.social para a revista Brazilian Creative Industries Journal. Thanks @vanessavaliati.bsky.social for helping us edit it
periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
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It looks like first conference for 2024 — a panel with @memorieschild.bsky.social and Simone Driessen — is sorted. We’ll be examining the complex power dynamics of celebrity and fan relations at the Power in Prestige conference in Oxford in July 2024
December 21, 2023 at 7:54 AM
It looks like first conference for 2024 — a panel with @memorieschild.bsky.social and Simone Driessen — is sorted. We’ll be examining the complex power dynamics of celebrity and fan relations at the Power in Prestige conference in Oxford in July 2024
Fan studies followers! Take note: periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
October 12, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Fan studies followers! Take note: periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...
Finally watched The Bear. Loved it. Made me think a lot about thriving on stress, and working in academia.
October 1, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Finally watched The Bear. Loved it. Made me think a lot about thriving on stress, and working in academia.