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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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OUT NOW

Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in #Asia edited by Celia Lam & Jackie Raphael-Luu www.bloomsbury.com/9780755655021

Coverage includes #bromance in Bollywood, #K-Pop, YouTube stars & more! 🤩

New in the Asian #Celebrity and #Fandom Studies series: https://bit.ly/4oddqat
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
Congrats to SIG member Mel Stanfill for winning the Diamond Anniversary Book for FANDOM IS UGLY from the National Communication Association! We love to see fan studies-related scholarship getting national attention!
melstanfill.bsky.social Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 3d
Honored to have Fandom Is Ugly recognized by NCA.
Plaque for the NCA diamond anniversary book award for Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
The DePaul Pop Culture Conference theme this year is Remixing Pop Music, to be held at DePaul in Chicago on May 2. If you're interested in the theme, you can submit an idea for a presentation here (by Jan. 31): popcultureconference.com/2026-remix-p...
RSVP 1 — DePaul Pop Culture Conference
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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augustaquarius.bsky.social
My book Theme Park Fandom is coming out in a much more affordable paperback edition. Pre-order here:

www.routledge.com/Theme-Park-F...
Theme Park Fandom: Spatial Transmedia, Materiality and Participatory Cultures
Theme Park Fandom argues that serious study of theme parks and their adult fans has much to tell us about contemporary transmediality and convergence, themed and immersive spaces, and audience relatio...
www.routledge.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
What do we think, team?
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 6d
The Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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tomue.bsky.social
Join us @cbuniversity.bsky.social! #job ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...
Assistant Professor - English (Digital Narratives) - Sydney, NS - Indeed.com
Cape Breton University
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
scmsfaas.bsky.social
SIG members, mark your calendar for our annual SIG meeting on Friday, Dec. 5 at 10am Central / 16:00 UTC. Links and instructions will be sent that week.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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christinawurst.bsky.social
Meine Diss, jetzt zum Lesen / Download erhältlich! /
My thesis, now available for reading / downloading!

bibliographie.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstr...

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Cover that says "ANTI / FAN ACTIVISM" (the slash is a lightsaber) Ideological Negotiations in Star Wars Fan Conflicts on Social Media from 2015 to 2024 PhD thesis by Christina Wurst Keywords: Social Media, Critical Discourse Analysis, Star Wars, Fan Activism, Anti-Fandom, (Anti-)Feminism, Populism, Shipping "Back" of the cover that says: "“Anti/Fan Activism” examines how political polarization manifests within movie and television fandoms, focusing on the Star Wars franchise as a key site of ideological negotiation. While previous scholarship has explored fan activism as a form of participatory politics and analyzed the dangers of toxic fan cultures such as #Gamergate, little attention has been paid to how political polarization unfolds within fan discourse itself. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis demonstrates how language, visuals, and platform affordances shape power relations, ideologies, and community boundaries in online fan spaces across YouTube, Twitter/X, and Tumblr. Through three case studies, the thesis demonstrates how anti/fan activism, i.e. fan activism driven by negative affect towards a text, manifests differently depending on political alignment. Reactionary fans engage in bottom-up attempts to reshape the media industry through “anti-woke” campaigns and a fan-populist style that constructs an authentic (male) fandom in opposition to elite “corporate” producers. Progressive fans, by contrast, focus on lateral policing within fandoms, deploying social justice rhetoric to suppress content and fan behaviors they perceive as harmful. Across the Star Wars sequels and related productions, fan conflicts such as discussions about “Mary Sues”, YouTube’s right-wing media analysis essays, and Tumblr’s anti-shipping movements reveal how broader socio-political anxieties about feminism, masculinity, and diversity are projected onto media texts. Ultimately, these fan conflicts illustrate how the logics of the visibility economy amplify polarized discourse and turn fandom into a stage where ideological struggle and affect-driven participation intersect."
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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
scmsfaas.bsky.social
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
scmsfaas.bsky.social
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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“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!)

📩 [email protected]
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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
scmsfaas.bsky.social
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
scmsfaas.bsky.social
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.

mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
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
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM