K. Morrissey
@katiedidnt.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.)
Okay, this is for my fan historians, does anyone know anything about the origin story for the first IDICon logo/program cover (shown at left). Because, I can not unsee this. Given the origins of IDICon and this politics of the Lissitzky poster (right), this has to be intentional, right?!
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Okay, this is for my fan historians, does anyone know anything about the origin story for the first IDICon logo/program cover (shown at left). Because, I can not unsee this. Given the origins of IDICon and this politics of the Lissitzky poster (right), this has to be intentional, right?!
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Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
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Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.
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New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...
www.routledge.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close
#FanStudies
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Is anyone writing on the connection between“enshitification” (Doctorow) and AI sloppification? I feel like someone needs to be doing this.
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Is anyone writing on the connection between“enshitification” (Doctorow) and AI sloppification? I feel like someone needs to be doing this.
“‘Discovery,’ as the second-season episode was called, is largely forgotten for its important place in the record of queer representation on TV.”
How the Cop Show ‘Barney Miller’ Made Gay TV History, 50 Years Ago
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“‘Discovery,’ as the second-season episode was called, is largely forgotten for its important place in the record of queer representation on TV.”
“‘KPop Demon Hunters’… is now the most-watched film in the streaming company’s history, with 325 million views. It was also the first Netflix movie to top the box office chart, when it was released for a weekend in August.”
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Helps Lift Netflix Revenue 17%
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“‘KPop Demon Hunters’… is now the most-watched film in the streaming company’s history, with 325 million views. It was also the first Netflix movie to top the box office chart, when it was released for a weekend in August.”
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What's behind the cultural phenomenon of "KPop Demon Hunters"? 🎤✨🎶
#ASUHumanities professors @areum.bsky.social (ASU School of International Letters and Cultures) and @katiedidnt.bsky.social (ASU English) explain.
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#ASUHumanities professors @areum.bsky.social (ASU School of International Letters and Cultures) and @katiedidnt.bsky.social (ASU English) explain.
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Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week | ASU News
As part of this year's Humanities Week at Arizona State University, a “Fun with K-Pop Demon Hunters” event will take place on Oct. 22.If you’ve read that sentence and are wondering what, or who, K-pop...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What's behind the cultural phenomenon of "KPop Demon Hunters"? 🎤✨🎶
#ASUHumanities professors @areum.bsky.social (ASU School of International Letters and Cultures) and @katiedidnt.bsky.social (ASU English) explain.
ow.ly/Negp50XcKkv
#ASUHumanities professors @areum.bsky.social (ASU School of International Letters and Cultures) and @katiedidnt.bsky.social (ASU English) explain.
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Many thanks to ASU News for inviting me to share my thoughts! Also in great company with @katiedidnt.bsky.social! 🌵🌴
Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week news.asu.edu/20251015-art...
Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week news.asu.edu/20251015-art...
Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week | ASU News
As part of this year's Humanities Week at Arizona State University, a “Fun with K-Pop Demon Hunters” event will take place on Oct. 22.If you’ve read that sentence and are wondering what, or who, K-pop...
news.asu.edu
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Many thanks to ASU News for inviting me to share my thoughts! Also in great company with @katiedidnt.bsky.social! 🌵🌴
Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week news.asu.edu/20251015-art...
Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week news.asu.edu/20251015-art...
Join me on my campaign to convince fan scholars to stop using the word fandom. Or tell me why I’m wrong. 😅
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..."
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..."
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Join me on my campaign to convince fan scholars to stop using the word fandom. Or tell me why I’m wrong. 😅
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Since this took off a bit, may I introduce you to Chapter 1: Media Literacy, AI Literacy? www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-...
Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies: Lights, Camera, Algorithms
A timely intervention into the role of AI in teaching film and media studies, this book offers insights into how scholars and educators can adapt their approaches in the face of emerging technologies....
www.routledge.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since this took off a bit, may I introduce you to Chapter 1: Media Literacy, AI Literacy? www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-...
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🚨🚨LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR OUR #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies CONFERENCE!!!🚨🚨
Registration closes TOMORROW (Oct 21) at 11:59pm ET‼️
You can find the registration & conference info on our REVAMPED WEBSITE at fsn-northamerica.org#Conference
Registration closes TOMORROW (Oct 21) at 11:59pm ET‼️
You can find the registration & conference info on our REVAMPED WEBSITE at fsn-northamerica.org#Conference
a drag queen with white hair and a blue dress has the word chance in white letters
ALT: a drag queen with white hair and a blue dress has the word chance in white letters
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨🚨LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR OUR #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies CONFERENCE!!!🚨🚨
Registration closes TOMORROW (Oct 21) at 11:59pm ET‼️
You can find the registration & conference info on our REVAMPED WEBSITE at fsn-northamerica.org#Conference
Registration closes TOMORROW (Oct 21) at 11:59pm ET‼️
You can find the registration & conference info on our REVAMPED WEBSITE at fsn-northamerica.org#Conference
Happy National “Can Teaching Exist Without Canvas?” Day to all who are participating in this unplanned teaching experiment. 🤦♀️
October 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Happy National “Can Teaching Exist Without Canvas?” Day to all who are participating in this unplanned teaching experiment. 🤦♀️
Can we make this required reading in college writing classes?
Advice | 10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing
And how to help them see that AI cannot craft good essays.
www.chronicle.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Can we make this required reading in college writing classes?
I am in CT for a very brief amount of time and attempting to drink as much Foxon Park birch beer soda as possible before I leave.
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I am in CT for a very brief amount of time and attempting to drink as much Foxon Park birch beer soda as possible before I leave.
Great playlist on The Amplifier this week. (To be fair, this opinion may be generationally specific. But I am definitely being HAILED here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
10 Great Tracks From Major-Label Debuts
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Great playlist on The Amplifier this week. (To be fair, this opinion may be generationally specific. But I am definitely being HAILED here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
I am a zombie who has just spent hours and hours of her life reconfiguring assignments and reprogramming deadlines on Canvas. And I'm still not done.
Tech bros, stop telling me to AI generate syllabi and start designing an AI tool to build Canvas shells from my syllabi.
Tech bros, stop telling me to AI generate syllabi and start designing an AI tool to build Canvas shells from my syllabi.
August 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I am a zombie who has just spent hours and hours of her life reconfiguring assignments and reprogramming deadlines on Canvas. And I'm still not done.
Tech bros, stop telling me to AI generate syllabi and start designing an AI tool to build Canvas shells from my syllabi.
Tech bros, stop telling me to AI generate syllabi and start designing an AI tool to build Canvas shells from my syllabi.
One of my favorite lines from reader debates on sex and romance in 1999: "a veritable sex bath of perversions.” Honestly, why did we settle on a tasteful term like erotic romance when we could have gone with a "sex bath of perversions!"
August 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One of my favorite lines from reader debates on sex and romance in 1999: "a veritable sex bath of perversions.” Honestly, why did we settle on a tasteful term like erotic romance when we could have gone with a "sex bath of perversions!"
Apparently “660,000-word serialized novel” is secret NY Times code for “Harry Potter Fanfiction now?” 🙄
(It feels like this article like it is skipping over A LOT of significant details for fear of lawsuits from wealthy people.)
(It feels like this article like it is skipping over A LOT of significant details for fear of lawsuits from wealthy people.)
The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Apparently “660,000-word serialized novel” is secret NY Times code for “Harry Potter Fanfiction now?” 🙄
(It feels like this article like it is skipping over A LOT of significant details for fear of lawsuits from wealthy people.)
(It feels like this article like it is skipping over A LOT of significant details for fear of lawsuits from wealthy people.)
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fire's currently working on this case with student newspapers suing Rubio. this is really important, imo. thehill.com/regulation/c...
Stanford student newspaper sues Trump administration over writers fearing deportation
Stanford University’s independent student newspaper on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against two Trump administration officials, claiming some of its writers in the U.S. on student visas have …
thehill.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
fire's currently working on this case with student newspapers suing Rubio. this is really important, imo. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️
What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?
Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.
www.teenvogue.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️
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I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
Romance and AI Survey
Survey of romance authors' and readers' attitudes toward generative AI
oakland.az1.qualtrics.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
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CFP for Convention cultures workshop in February and Toronto now up! Deadline Sept. 8. roccetlab.ca/convention-c...
August 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
CFP for Convention cultures workshop in February and Toronto now up! Deadline Sept. 8. roccetlab.ca/convention-c...
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🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Excited to share my latest article: When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China, now out in Chinese Journal of Communication! 📰
Excited to share my latest article: When feminist awareness clashes with romance in games: a feminist reception study of otome gamers in China, now out in Chinese Journal of Communication! 📰
August 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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