Audience Research (Academic)
Bringing together scholars researching audiences across any discipline.
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@participations.bsky.social
@marinemalet.bsky.social
Researcher at the University of Bergen (DIGISCREENS) 🇳🇴 Associate researcher @carism-ifp 🇨🇵 📚 PhD in Media studies and Communication. 💬 TV series, dystopias and politics, representations, audiences studies, fan studies, VOD platforms
@jeninher40s.bsky.social
tv researcher (for work, pleasure, and academia); collector (typewriters and toys, mostly); immigrant; tattooed mother and artist’s wife; fond of swearing. Used to be in my 30s, but that was some time ago now.
@benlitherland.bsky.social
Popular culture and politics. Sometimes academic who writes about those things. Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
@matt-hills.bsky.social
Independent scholar, former Professor of Fandom Studies, life-long Doctor Who fan, lover of genre fiction (especially SF and crime), frequently astonished reader of contemporary political commentary
@emmamcdoofus.bsky.social
Lecturer at School of Performance & Cultural Industries (Leeds Uni); adhd; she/they; interested in how we make sense of/through our cultural experiences (esp theatre); preferred mode of communication - gifs; also dogs
@susiebeckham.bsky.social
Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics. Postdoc Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York.
@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
@homer-network.bsky.social
International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Web: https://homernetwork.org/
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.
@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.
@jainamarguerrero.bsky.social
Tenure-track Lecturer in fandom, transmedia and media literacy at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social, TV series geek and pizza enthusiast. My shenanigans are my own.
@jdoona.bsky.social
Senior lecturer & director of studies media and communication studies, Lund University. Work on cultural citizenship in popular, internet and fan culture; satire/humour/comedy engagement and audiences; and whatever other ways I can research civic silliness
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@hugginscooper.bsky.social
Horror maven. Thanatologist. SCBWI regional organiser NE. ‘Writing Know-How’ Editor for SCBWI. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
@britaytrearne.bsky.social
Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. OA book: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781802623833
@darioll.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, educator. Contact: drdario22@gmail.com Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
@rebeccahlamford.bsky.social
Aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham exploring representations of asexuality on television and their impacts on asexual communities 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@ikax.bsky.social
I'm an education-focussed academic at the Uni of Melbourne & the Head of School, Culture & Communication. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
@kte75.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
@scenicrailway.bsky.social
https://thefanthropologist.com/ newsletter✨ Film & TV studies MFA ✨ Jamie scholar ✨ I believe soup was invented in 1867 by Shrek ✨hutch baby please call me I'm very normal 🪴🦓3️⃣ linktr.ee/lenabarkin
@butnocigar.bsky.social
Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
@fangirlresearch.bsky.social
Final year fan studies PhD student studying fangirls @ University of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan activism, celebrity etc Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside. Queer autistic disabled
@zaborowski.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Assoc Prof) at King's College London. Media, audiences, popular music, virtual idols, migration, Japan, brewing, wrestling, board games, stuff no one else finds funny.
@danielcavicchi.bsky.social
Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fan studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
@areum.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫Researches & teaches Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance at ASU 📚Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sep 2025) & K-pop Fandom (U of Michigan Press, Feb 2026) forthcoming 📧areumjeong@gmail.com
@nickdavie.bsky.social
Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various. Nickdavie.wordpress.com
@chriscomerford.bsky.social
Lecturer in Comms & Media, University of Wollongong 📖 | Doctor of screens, fans & Batman 🦇 | Useless Trivia expert 🧠 | Ace Stardew Valley fisherman 🎣 | Views my own | He/Him
@suzannerblack.bsky.social
Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies. Postdoctoral Researcher, CoSTAR Foresight Lab, University of Edinburgh; views my own. she/her
@wfpproject.bsky.social
A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
@fanvidcrit.bsky.social
Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media
@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
@fanhackers.transformativeworks.org
Fanhackers is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) to make fan studies scholarship more accessible. We blog about research, maintain a fan studies bibliography, and more.
@melstanfill.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
@rukminipande.bsky.social
Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom.
@journal.transformativeworks.org
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
@drrossgarner.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1
@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 |
@drfangirlphd.bsky.social
Fangirl 🥰 Therapist 🦄 Fandom & Mental Health Research 🦸🏻♀️ @TheFangirlBiz Podcast 🎤 Views mine 🌈 Posts aren’t advice 💜 Kindness has a spine 🌊
@lizjevans.bsky.social
Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.
@nancybaym.bsky.social
30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
@elizabethminkel.bsky.social
Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Co-host/editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨ elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center
@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
@augustaquarius.bsky.social
⭐️Associate Professor (Reader) 📚 @fanstudies.bsky.social board 🎢 Transmedia Tourism • Experience Economy • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings ❤️ Sushi • Margaritas • Minions 🧟♀️ she/her 🏴 💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
@jenmhessler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society Views my own
@fansplaining.bsky.social
The podcast—and publication!—by, for, and about fandom. Writing on fan culture published once a month, with 250+ eps of the podcast (currently on hiatus) in our back catalog! fansplaining.com // patreon.com/fansplaining // https://ko-fi.com/fansplaining
@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.
@mediamarknz.bsky.social
formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
@berthac.bsky.social
Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Co-Editor-in-Chief Popular Communication. Fan Studies Network board. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies @ NUS, Singapore. Opinions my own. She/her
@memorieschild.bsky.social
Research Associate at Cardiff Uni; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; co-editor of Popular Communication; @fanstudies.bsky.social & @scmsfaas.bsky.social boards. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos and other fun stuff.
@fanstudies.bsky.social
Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012. https://fanstudies.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.
@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