Fans as consumers of cultural products have received a great deal of attention from
sociologists and cultural studies academics in recent years, and research on the relationship …

This study examines how the fandom of pop star Taylor Swift negotiates her
'political'awakening, after politically coming-out via Instagram in 2018. When Swift …

In summer 2020, when the language of racial reckoning entered US and transnational
public spheres following the murder of George Floyd, the contradictions of fandom's long …

Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online
fanfiction. Through exploring fans' narratives about themselves and the fanwork they …

Feminist cultural studies and feminist theory in genealogies of fan studies are taken for
granted. However, the implications of feminist methodological and epistemological …

A consideration of minoritarian fan responses to minoritarian representation within the
Western mainstream superhero genre reveals that minoritarian representation within the …

This paper offers an exploration into feminist female fans' reactions to the first female Doctor
(Doctor Who's protagonist). After 55 years of male actors, the 13th Doctor became a woman …

This article offers a rigorous conceptualisation of an undeveloped sociological concept:
conditional belonging. It implements and develops conditional belonging in the setting of …

The term 'popular culture'was not invented by those who consume the forms of culture it
designates but by those who took them as objects of study. The term has now migrated …

Seduction of the Innocent, by Fredric Wertham, contended that comic books could harm
youth; it is popularly understood as the impetus for the creation of the Comics Code Authority …