SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
@popjunctions.bsky.social
Pop Junctions is a blog that provides reflections on entertainment, pop culture, activism, media literacy, fandom, and more! https://henryjenkins.org/ Formerly known as Confessions of an Aca-Fan by Henry Jenkins.
@doctorcarrie.bsky.social
Research: Sensemaking studies, audience reception, fandom and communication technology. Currently working on politics as fandom. Also, Jedi who fights for peace, justice, truth, compasison, and empathy. www.playingwithresearch.com
@participations.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies. NEW ISSUE: November 2024: https://www.participations.org
@iheartfatapollo.bsky.social
Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
@jcmsjournal.bsky.social
Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
@effietheant.bsky.social
PhD(c) Media Studies, Western U | Reviews Editor, Journal of Fan Studies | Comms, Transformative Works & Cultures | #fanstudies | she/her
@nicolleness.bsky.social
🔸️Media studies scholar 🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech 🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht 🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖 https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
@aca-media.bsky.social
A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies https://aca-media.org/
@alfredmartin.bsky.social
Detroit native. Associate Professor and Chair of Cinematic Arts at U of Miami. Author of The Generic Closet, Fandom for Us, by Us, and editor of Rolling.
@melstanfill.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
@katandthetexts.bsky.social
PhD candidate at TU Dortmund || interested in gender, queerness, witches, media, and popular culture.
@aeraphiel.bsky.social
MLIS at Oslo Metropolitan by day, Forever DM by night, and FanStudies researcher by accident. He/Him, Queer, Autistic (@syntheticwhite on the birb-app)
@chrisbecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
@darioll.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, educator. Contact: drdario22@gmail.com Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
@katejholmes.bsky.social
Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her) author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
@direjackalope.bsky.social
Academic looking at pop culture, gender, fans, and monsters. They/them. Sometimes I make stuff. Frequently fannish. Retweets & likes =/= endorsements.
@clairemcathrine.bsky.social
PhD: 'Representing Marock: A Study of Visual and Material Culture, Identity Formation and Community-Building in Botswana'. Research interests: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death, subcultures and digital humanities
@frittersandclam.bsky.social
teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
@reneemiddlemost.bsky.social
Dr of cult movies| Communication and Media academic | researching celebrity, fans, film, and media audiences| pop culture nerd | coffee enthusiast | dog Ma | WSL/Matildas fan | views my own |
@jjol33n.bsky.social
|Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @CoEGameCult |Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
@pcbryan.bsky.social
Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
@lizlaurie.bsky.social
Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art. PhD in Theatre and Drama. Adjunct. Researches Cosplay. she/her/hers
@charstevens.bsky.social
Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
@anasalter.bsky.social
Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining.
@kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
Reader of books and player of games. College professor and pokémon trainer. Writes about media and society. In love with monsters and magic. 🌿 https://digitalfantasydiary.com/ 🌿
@louah.bsky.social
PhD candidate, musicology, Uni of Leeds: Cover Versions, Coronamusic & post pandemic pop. Associate lecturer in media, culture and politics, Uni of Worcester. Music & pop culture obsessive. Sax & woodwind player. She/they.
@deanleetal.bsky.social
Phd hopeful, fandom, X-Men, Taskmaster, Staged, SPN, non binary, trans, fat, polyam, neurodivergent, queer, aroace, ceasefire now
@briony.bsky.social
Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
@rhys.newydd.net
By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe https://swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones/ https://analog.newydd.net/
@katiedidnt.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.)
@jamesrendell.bsky.social
Lecturer in Creative Industries at University of South Wales. Researching media audiences, horror, film & TV, inclusivity & diversity. FHEA. He/Him. Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror out now https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726320/transmedia-terrors-in
@bridgetkies.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Film Studies and Production; Faculty Fellow, AI and Teaching, Oakland University Television is good for you.
@meesk.bsky.social
TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
@jsalowe.com
she/her | just another poet with a cat | teaches film and literature | studies danmei and fanfic | masterless ronin, island dweller, matcha enjoyer | "it wasn't always like this, of course. on occasion it's been worse." | http://jsalowe.com
@ashleyhinck.bsky.social
I research rhetoric, the internet, and fandom. Associate Professor at Xavier University. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BA from Creighton University.
@cbkenkar.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention. 🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Co-host, You Made Me Watch That?! available wherever you get podcasts.
@craigimann.bsky.social
Home video producer for Eureka / Masters of Cinema | writer on genre movies | author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film | producer of Survivors: The Spectre of Threads | 📼 📀
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@fear2000.bsky.social
A conference series dedicated to 21st century horror media | organiser: @craigimann.bsky.social | news on our 2024 conference coming soon | #fear2000 🤖
@linenybro.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Media Studies. Researching participatory culture e.g. fan cultures, digital play, extremism, and conspiracy theories online. University of Copenhagen. Co-coordinator of smidgeproject.eu. She/her. Obsessive knitter and yarn dyer.
@valderie.bsky.social
loud disabled academic who’s obsessed with her dog. MA in celebrity & fan studies, currently a MLIS student. creator of spottedhounddesign. suffering mets and destiel fan. she/her.
@aladyofchance.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film, would-be time traveller & ever-aspiring Yiddishistke. Film history, fan studies, movie magazines & Norma Shearer.