🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now.

If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into micro.blog, & then syndicate to Twitter. Let me know if a tutorial for this would be helpful.

🔖 Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.

🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom.

the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet ever-present and deeply internalized, part of [the acafan’s] methodology.

🔖Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama – Flow

The dilemma that online researchers have to confront is how to respect a user’s or group’s perceived privacy while simultaneously not ignoring their voices.

🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform

We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the scholarship we produce, and if we have given our fan identifications too much influence over academic ones.

🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform

I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position that we bring to our work as well as to our investment in media texts and/or their communities.

🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost.

Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.

🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV.

The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, while that which clearly is getting broadly read and cited is viewed as an optional hobby.

🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV.

It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of analysis… but as a structuring facet of academic research.

🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter

I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”