Closing out #TWC46 is Fiona Katie Haborak's review of Elizabeth Affuso & @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social's edited collection, "Sartorial Fandom"! Read the full review here:
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For #TWC46, @katiedidnt.bsky.social reviewed @tbaudinette.bsky.social's "Boys love media in Thailand"! Morrissey states that Baudinette "asks [us] to problematize [our] assumptions about queer media, embrace ambiguity, & resist older theoretical frameworks". Read the review here:
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#TWC46 also reintroduces our Multimedia section as a space for nontextual contributions! Here, Kelsey Wildman Stokes presents an interview with Brannon Carty, the director of the fan documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of Thomas the Tank Engine. Read it today:
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Next, Robert S. Santucci's "Polyphemus ❤️ Acis: The conduit in Ovid's Metamorphoses" applies the conduit, a motif from fan fiction, to offer a reparative reading of Ovid's story. Read it in #TWC46:
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The first Symposium piece in #TWC46 comes to us from Sidnee Lim! In "Queer time and space in genderqueering fancams #transpeterparkeredit," Lim explores how fans use fan edits and fancams to reimagine characters as genderqueer! Read here:
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Closing out our Fans & AI section, Jing Bai asks us to reconsider the relationships between humans and AI in "Otaku and AI: Reconsidering human, machine, and animal"! Read their Symposium piece in #TWC46 today!
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In a New Currents symposium, Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo ask us to consider major questions about how generative AI problematizes existing power structures in and around fandom in #TWC46! Read their piece here:
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Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang close out the New Currents Articles with ""This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence"! Read it in #TWC46:
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Tara Heimberger moves beyond static fan fiction to examine immersive character chatbots that allow fans to carry out a conversation with fan objects in "Character.AI and the quest for immersion in fan fiction practices" for #TWC46! Read it now:
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Next in New Currents, @drtlwagner.bsky.social & Alison Harding use traditional analyses to examine work created using generative AI in ""Remember, love knows no boundaries and comes in many forms": The conceptualization of queerness within AI-generated fan works"! Read it in #TWC46:
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#TWC46 features our first ever section titled New Currents! This section collects articles on new topics or approaches at a smaller scale than a special issue. In this issue, New Currents focuses on how fans and fan studies scholars engage with AI as a tool for transformative engagement! Stay tuned!
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For #TWC46, James Brooks Kuykendall turns our attention to historical fan studies in his analysis of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society! Read "Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)" today:
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In "Beyond the "fandom as religion" comparison: Measuring the sacred dimensions of Comic-Con fan devotion," Michael A. Elliott & Marissa Mowers challenge scholarship that considers fandom as a type of religious devotion via an exploration of Comic-Con attendees. Read it in #TWC46:
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For #TWC46, @thekateprior.bsky.social offers a quantitative analysis of both platonic and romantic Spider-Man fan fiction in "Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction"! Read it here:
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In "Young women and fan fiction: Motives, reading practices, and reader types," Darina Valiakhmetova, Diana Shchelkanova, and Oxana Mikhaylova expand beyond the anglophone world with their work on Russian fan fiction readers! Read it in #TWC46:
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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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Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
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In "Surviving Armageddon (aka COVID-19) through "Good Omens: Lockdown" fan fiction," Rachel Loewen demonstrates how fans created health messaging that spoke to intersectional audiences through #GoodOmens fic! Read the Article in #TWC46:
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Next up in #TWC46, Taylor Drake's analyzes how fans with eating disorders negotiate anti-anorexia messaging in media in "Disordered eating, disordered reading: Wintergirls and the fannish practices of pro-ana"! Read it here:
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The first Article in #TWC46, by @takakusa.bsky.social, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the fannish lives of anime song fans in Japan, highlighting the ways that in-person activities are often crucial to fans' social and mental wellbeing. Read it here:
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In the opening editorial for #TWC46, coeditors @melstanfill.bsky.social and Poe Johnson focus on diversifying "the scholarly grounds upon which we do our work" and aim to "make room for the fandom killjoys (Pande 2018) & troublemakers who can unsettle those foundations"! Read more:
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