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Damnit I really liked Kas! #TheTraitors

Hello everyone! We are excited to announce that we're looking for new FSNNA committee members ahead of #FSNNA25 deadline: Jan 31 need: bio and Q&A emailed See more, and our full call, on the website here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/01/17/cal…

Horrendous to see this at Cardiff. My thoughts are with colleagues on affected schools, especially ENCAP where I did my MA and have friends working.

Listening to the Horror SIG videogames roundtable while playing Maid of Sker. Very appropriate.

There's several petitions going around following the recent Cardiff Uni announcement about job losses. Please consider signing and sharing (h/t Facebook). change.org/p/save-cardiff… change.org/p/save-cardiff… change.org/p/save-cardiff… change.org/p/save-mlang-a… petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2464…

Me and Dr Simone D. are organising a pre-SCMS symposium on participatory culture, politics and reactionary fandom. Details and CFP available at fanstudies.org/2025/02/05/cfp…

Not me about to spend my evening sobbing over Boyzone...

The stereophonics, who come from the same town as me, who I used to drink in the same pub as several times when I was younger, are playing a gig in Chicago when I'm in Chicago! So tempted to go and stand at the front with a banner than says I'm from Aberdare!

Oh hey, the book that me, Dr Simone D. and Benjamin Litherland co-edited is up on Iowa's website! uipress.uiowa.edu/books/particip…

I've got a chapter (on The X-Files, naturally) in this edited collection! Coming out soon and available for preorder now. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-li…

So sorry to hear this. Mark was a lovely guy, incredibly kind and generous and a huge force in fan studies. Awful news.

The ebook version of an edited collection me and @SteffElMadawi contributed a chapter to is now available! We wrote about digital witnessing and forensic fandom, focusing on Nicola Bulley. Let me know if you want to read it but can't access it. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

The chapter I wrote on The Walking Dead head now been published in the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. I analyze the transmedia world of The Walking Dead, focusing on the comics, The Walking Dead TV series and its various spin-offs, and the video games. link.springer.com/referenceworke…

The report I worked on for Media Cymru looking at how screen sector freelancers working in Wales understand innovation has now been published. The findings aren't necessarily surprising but it gives us more insight into freelance work in the sector. media.cymru/wp-content/upl…

Very exciting PhD on film tourism impacts being advertised at Edith Cowan University supervised by Associate Prof. Sangkyun Kim & Dr Eerang Park, with the potential for a scholarship. I'm tempted and I've got a PhD! More details at linkedin.com/posts/kouroshe… #fanstudies #filmtourism

Join us Friday, May 2 for a virtual roundtable moderated by Jason Kido Lopez and Lori Morimoto with authors from the recent Transformative Works and Cultures issue on sports fandom. Co-sponsored by the SCMS Sports Media SIG. Click to see the full image, then follow the QR code to register!

Loved the use of BSL on #DoctorWho this week and watching Doctor Who Unleashed and seeing the amount of consideration that went into using BSL and working with Deaf actor is brilliant. We should have more of this in TV.

I've got an article in this issue of The Velvet Light Trap that's based on the screen tourism research I was funded for a few years ago. So pleased to see it in print. utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-v… #fantourism #screentourism