I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog there (just like I do with Twitter) so if you’re moving your web social activity there, you can follow me @kimberlyhirsh@mastodon.social to see my stuff. I’ll check notifications.

If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.

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

Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.

🔖 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.