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Very exciting PhD on film tourism impacts being advertised at Edith Cowan University supervised by Associate Professor Sangkyun Kim & Dr Eerang Park with the potential for a scholarship too. I'm tempted and I've got a PhD! More details at www.linkedin.com/posts/kouros... #fanstudies #filmtourism

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That is just so many jobs!

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RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague.

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Debuted on NHK last week! I was interviewed for a TV special on vocaloid cultures, focusing on how they allow listeners and young people in particular to develop their voice and a sense of agency. Friends in Japan can catch it on-demand.

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My new article, co-authored with @zaborowski.bsky.social & focused on Kate Bush fandom on TikTok is now out 🎵

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hat tip to @theliamnissan.bsky.social

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Happy Fat Thursday, the best Polish holiday

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Nelson correctly says that of course Sunak is English, but absolutely misses his part in shaping the rhetoric we have now which makes the "unthinkable" questions mainstream.

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Sankei gallery for 猫の日(Cat Day) leads with this photo. www.sankei.com/article/2025...

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Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

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It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors. Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

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🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

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‘We’re projecting into the future’: sounds of BBC Radiophonic Workshop made available for public use

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New open access article! With @lucykbennett.bsky.social we explore the resurgence of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" on TikTok -- creativity, renewal and nostalgia through fandom, but also tensions between platform infrastructure, creators and audiences. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

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Academics have always been complaining about admin duties eating into their teaching and research time

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Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...

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Free access music article collection! @zaborowski.bsky.social & I edited a collection of 20 music academic articles for journal @icsjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...

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🎶 Exciting news! Check out our latest #iCS #digitalCollection on Popular Music, featuring classic articles on streaming, devices, mediated fandom, and more! Edited by @lucykbennett.bsky.social & @zaborowski.bsky.social . Free access for a limited time! 🎉📚 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...

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Seriously, this has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard from a Labour MP in this parliament - and possibly ever.

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Me and @simoned.bsky.social are organising a pre-SCMS symposium on participatory culture, politics and reactionary fandom. Details and CFP are available at fanstudies.org/2025/02/05/c... and we'd love to see some abstracts from you!

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Free access! @lucykbennett.bsky.social and I curated a collection of 20 articles focusing on music and sound from the past two decades www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...

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Looks great!

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hello I decided to be more annoying than usual www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

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Japanese primary school children dropped from 4th to 6th in an international ranking of science education. The Ministry says this was down to a question not taught in Japan. Namely, which of the animals below live in the desert? www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

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Good explainer on AI's (enormous) water consumption oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-...

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Agree! It’s always the wrong aspect; have it handle participant recruitment instead

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I know I’m 37 years late with this but the bosses in the original Metal Gear had the best names

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👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

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if you find the new Signal app colour hue terrible, you can change it in settings (iOS) and go back to being angry about proper things

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Always late, never show

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i had a look because i couldn't resist and the first "fancy woke filling" mentioned in the article is chicken

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it made me sad for a moment to think about how there are probably people out there that don't know there is a whole fake netflix site full of the fictional movies and shows referenced within movies and shows nestflix.fun/the-rural-ju...

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A shameless plug for all the season one episodes of my podcast, Ill Effects. All retweets appreciated as I was building this in a year when I wasn't on Twitter! If you're unsure where to start the Beatles episode is my fave!

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As we haven’t seen one yet, we’ve started an Audience Research starter pack. If you work in audience, user, fan or reception studies in any discipline and would like to be included, let us know below go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us - ‘All Mapped Out is an entertaining adventure for everyone who loves maps, both real and imaginary, analogue and digital’ reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/all-map... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities

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