The following article suggests that many relationships (ships) that are popular in fandom are canonically queer in ways other than sexuality. Fan communities often have heated discussions regarding wh...

In 2016, Bristol Old Vic in the United Kingdom celebrated its 250th birthday as the longest continuously running theatre in the English speaking world. This article draws on empirical research I condu...

This article presents a novel exploration of music keepsakes acquired by fans through direct encounters with Irish blues musician Rory Gallagher (1948–95). Drawing on findings from object-oriented int...

Science fiction fans have existed for around a hundred years. Their community formed in the pages of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. It is time for historians and fan studies scholars to examine th...

This article examines the representation of mermaids in fanfiction and how these stories challenge cis-heteronormative conventions, particularly in the context of queer friendships and chosen families...

Review of: Fanfiction as Queer Healing: Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship, Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (2024) London: Bloomsbury Academic, 220 pp., ISBN 978-1-35035-086-1, h/bk, USD 58.50

Review of: How to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding through Video Games, Bo Ruberg (2025) New York: NYU Press, 292 pp., ISBN 978-1-47983-200-2, p/bk, USD 30.00

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This article explores ongoing fan discourses surrounding the alleged artistic decline in quality of the influential video series Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN). Since 2016 and intensifying since 2021, fans, critics and vocal antagonists of the series and its creator, James Rolfe, express salient anxieties over changes to the series and the legacy of its creator, revealing larger symbolic struggles than simply whether a 20-year-old YouTube series has declined in quality. To explore the social drama surrounding Rolfe and the motivations for the anti-fannish struggle for the soul of AVGN, the author employs Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic concepts to demonstrate how Rolfe has been symbolically constructed as a scapegoat to bear collective guilt over two anti-fandoms’ respective communal anxieties. Criticisms reveal anxieties over YouTube privileging profit and corporatization over the more symbolically pure ideal of passionate self-expression, as well as conservative–libertarian anxieties over threats to geek masculinity and gamer hegemony.

The multi - disciplinary nature of fan studies makes the development of a community of scholars sometimes difficult to achieve. The Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. It focuses on the critical exploration, within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures, of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film, music, television, sports and gaming), The journal aims to address key issues in fans studies itself, while also fostering new areas of enquiry that take us beyond the bounds of current scholarship.

Review of: Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline, Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost and Jessica Balanzategui (eds) (2022) Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 242 pp., ISBN 978-1-60938-855-3, p/bk, USD 95

‘The Pitt’ outcry proves we need clear etiquette in journalism about fandoms.

The crew spent about seven hours circling the moon, taking photographs and making observations of never-before-seen features.

Journal of Fandom Studies; Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across...

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A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...

This study examines the cultural and economic dimensions of anime merchandise through a case study of character perfume. Emerging in the 1960s as a form of low-budget, limited animation, anime has evo...

Framed within cultural studies, this article offers a longitudinal case study on how the symbolic and cultural value of Japanese male idols is constructed through fan practices and subsequently transf...

This article uses multimodal discourse analysis to address responses to perceived sexualization on Tumblr through the explication of a specific post and its reblogs. Tumblr’s particular affordances in...

This study uses fandom as a conceptual foundation to ascertain how self-identities and personality traits are reflected across library and information sciences (LIS), a field with varied specializatio...