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Dr Rebecca Williams
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⭐️Associate Professor 📚 @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member 🎢 Transmedia Tourism • Experience Economy • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings ❤️ Sushi • Margaritas • Minions 🧟‍♀️ she/her 💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 5d
A few comments on fandom from me in this new piece @theatlantic.com

#FanStudies

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
It’s Not Just Netflix—It’s Your Entire Life
The streaming service is expanding beyond screens and into the real world. Will subscribers follow?
www.theatlantic.com
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ptklein @ptklein.com · 9h
I am working on a piece for a queer alt weekly about Rocky Horror’s legacy, and I’d love to speak with you about what the film means to you! If you’re interested in being a part of this, my DMs are open!
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ptklein @ptklein.com · 12d
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!
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John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · 15h
Another question I have about this: if 100k fewer people every year go to university/do apprenticeships instead, what kind of jobs do the Conservatives think these people will end up in?

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News
Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 14h
The @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social conference schedule is online and it looks amazing!

#FanStudies

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FSNNA 2025 Conference News
FSNNA PRESENTS:REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital October 23-26, 2025 FSNNA2025 Conference Program TWO-PAGE SPREAD PROGRAM SINGLE PAGE PROGRAM ACCESSIBLE PROGRAM ...
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 15h
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17h
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Katharina Röder (she/her) @katandthetexts.bsky.social · Jun 25
My lovely colleague Nicole Mellin and I are organizing a conference on contemporary reading cultures, so if two days of booktok, (dark) romance, developments in publishing, the construction of "the reader", fan fiction, etc. sound intriguing to you, we're looking forward to reading your abstracts!!
CfP | “Contemporary Reading Cultures” – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 2d
Did you know we have lots of other events going on during our #FSNNA2025 #FanStudies Conference in addition to our headliners?

For ex/ we've got a Q&A event happening Thurs Oct 23 (9-10am ET) with @pbooth81.bsky.social titled
"Publishing with the Bloomsbury Fan Primer Series"
a cartoon character says " mind if i ask you a few questions ? "
ALT: a cartoon character says " mind if i ask you a few questions ? "
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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 2d
Next in #TWC46, Caitlin Joyce's ethnographic study of a #BL community reveals how queer men use BL texts to explore their identities and desires. Read Joyce's article, ""I wish my life was like this": Queer identity work in BL fandom," here:
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 2d
www.mid-day.com/amp/sunday-m...
Casual posting on social media: Why the ‘what I ate for lunch’ photo is too cringe
Posting on social media has evolved among millennials and Gen Z from sharing mundane moments and life updates to curated, aesthetically pleasing performances
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 2d
CFP: SFFTV special issue on Digital Media and New Horror

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 2d
New chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Grosu-Rădulescu, LM. (2025). Ustopians of Today: From Fantasy to Reality, Female Cosplay in Romania. In: Nanda, A., Grosu-Rădulescu, LM. (eds) Inhabiting Ustopia: Science Fiction in Film, Performing Arts, and Digital Media.

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doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Ustopians of Today: From Fantasy to Reality, Female Cosplay in Romania
Futuristic creations, be they literary, cinematic, or any other performative production, incorporate an escapist feature and feed audiences’ imagination not only by transporting them to ustopian temporalities but also by creating characters whose identities are...
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FanLIS @fanlis.bsky.social · 4d
This is a great opportunity to plug Suzanne and Naomi Jacobs' edited special issue on AI in the latest issue of TWC 🔥 journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
#FanStudies #FanLIS
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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 3d
New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Teodorescu, A. (2025). Between Ustopia and the Affective Heterotopia: Vtubing and its Fandom. In: Nanda, A., Grosu-Rădulescu, LM. (eds) Inhabiting Ustopia: Science Fiction in Film, Performing Arts, and Digital Media.

#FanStudies

doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Between Ustopia and the Affective Heterotopia: Vtubing and its Fandom
What happens when technological advancements bring sci-fi entities to life in a real-imagined scenario? Enter the VTuber, short for Virtual Youtuber, a type of content producer that blurs the boundaries between the real, the virtual, and the fantastic—using...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.
Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises
Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Albumism @albumism.com · 3d
Mazzy Star released ‘So Tonight That I Might See’ 32 years ago on October 5, 1993 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/MSsotonight
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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · Aug 12
Our 2025 Fans of Color prize-winning Article was published in #TWC44, our special issue on “Centering Blackness in Fan Studies,” on December 15, 2024. You can read it here: buff.ly/sycJso7
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · Sep 8
Bryan Fuller and his Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen reunite in DUST BUNNY, a new monster movie directed by Fuller and releasing in theaters on December 5.
‘Dust Bunny’ Trailer – Mads Mikkelsen Hunts Monsters in ‘Hannibal’ Creator Bryan Fuller’s Directorial Debut
A 10-year-old girl joins forces with her hit man neighbor to confront each other’s monsters in the trailer for Dust Bunny. The film premieres tomorrow night at the Toronto International Film Festival ...
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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 3d
"What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't?" Macbeth, Act 1, Scene III

🎞️ Hercules, 1997 #ShakespeareSunday
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 5d
A few comments on fandom from me in this new piece @theatlantic.com

#FanStudies

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
It’s Not Just Netflix—It’s Your Entire Life
The streaming service is expanding beyond screens and into the real world. Will subscribers follow?
www.theatlantic.com
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fanstudies.bsky.social
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 4d
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).

doi.org/10.1177/1527...
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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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 3d
New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ouvrein, G. (2024). Followers, fans, friends, or haters? A typology of the online interactions and relationships between social media influencers and their audiences based on a social capital framework. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5659-5690.

#FanStudies

doi.org/10.1177/1461...
Followers, fans, friends, or haters? A typology of the online interactions and relationships between social media influencers and their audiences based on a social capital framework - Gaëlle Ouvrein, ...
Little is known about the characteristics and dynamics within SMI–audience interactions and relationships from the side of SMI. Using interview data from 19 (N ...
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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 7d
T&T students @helloemi.bsky.social‬ and Carol Stinnett recently published "Admiration to Alienation: Assessing Fan Response to Celebrity Weight Loss Using Representation Theory." Check it out! www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Admiration to Alienation: Assessing Fan Response to Celebrity Weight Loss Using Representation Theory
Abstract. This chapter explores the complex dynamics of fan engagement with celebrity weight loss narratives on Instagram using media scholar Stuart Hall’s
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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 3d
New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Glitsos, L., & Deuze, M. (2024). Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture. New Media & Society, 27(10), 5691-5709.

doi.org/10.1177/1461...
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture - Laura Glitsos, Mark Deuze, 2025
Many theorists have expounded on what serial killing says about the social in any given context and the ways in which serial killing and media are entangled, in...
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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · Sep 2
Kristofer's & my second essay on pink kryptonite is now out! Thx #FanLIS for making it happen! #FanLIS2025 www.academia.edu/130086326/Ma...
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FanLIS @fanlis.bsky.social · Sep 1
Here it is! The proceedings from #FanLIS2025 are now up at ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/...!
Thank you to all the speakers who contributed to putting this out, and once again making #FanLIS what it is! 🥰🫡🥳
Proceedings from the Document Academy | Vol 12 | Iss 1
ideaexchange.uakron.edu
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