New publication 📢 📢 lnkd.in/eDkiZejm Very pleased to share our new publication (with Fiona O'Rourke) in Men and Masculinities journal, which focuses on how our research about misogynistic and homophobic banter in digital spaces fed into an educational toolkit (download for free men4change.co.uk ).

@craighaslop.bsky.social’s paper outlined the value of an ecosystems approach to misogyny influencers and the “ideological collabs” in which they engage. He argued for a focus on collaborated content as well as the promotional, financial, and interpersonal connections that characterise this space.

Here we go - looking forward to Yannis Tzioumakis inaugural professorial lecture to a packed School of the Arts library! @sotauol.bsky.social

Looking forward to talking with this excellent online expert panel about male centred online communities beyond the manosphere. Details of how to book here…

@marcusjmaloney.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey there! Just a heads up about June 3 online event 'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' featuring @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, Saba Hussain & @joshuathorburn.bsky.social! Register now! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...

Hey there! Just a heads up about June 3 online event 'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' featuring @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, Saba Hussain & @joshuathorburn.bsky.social! Register now! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...

May 23rd 2025 UCL registration Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @andyincornwall.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-or-co...

Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School

Join us to discuss the global uptake of mobile phone ban in schools to support/promote young people’s rights and prevent sexual violences.

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Scheduled speakers include: @cat-baker.bsky.social, @joncollins.bsky.social, Eileen Culloty, @simoned.bsky.social, @profafinlayson.bsky.social, Marina Frid, @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, @kat-hig.bsky.social… (+ even more in the next post)

Lovely new book has arrived that I can recommend to students learning to do textual analysis of film and TV.

We’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.

RIP - a genius and real disrupter in film and TV. Gutted! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

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In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

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New in @popcommjournal.bsky.social Proctor, J. (2025). “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor. Popular Communication, 1–15. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...

“This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor

Focusing on queer female fan labor within the K-pop realm, this study explores how fans engage with female-centered media texts and the role of fan labor in shaping collective queer female identity...

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Yes, this simply doesn’t make sense, but is just legitimising and encouraging transphobia—there is no other way of seeing it. Trans people are a small minority and already heavily discriminated against—easy to pick on in a culture war designed to create hate and division.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

Trying to avoid #traitors spoilers on holiday is not easy 😅.

It’s important to consider the consequences of online abuse on political representation in light of the changes in meta’s moderation approach allowing more abuse and harassment to stay online.

PSA Media and Politics Group@psampg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next up, Emily Harmer introduces...Emily Harmer! She's sharing her research with Ros Southern, interviewing women politicians about their experiences of online harassment and abuse and how they manage this @rosalynd.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social #PSAMPG2025

LGBT+ discrimination now allowed on Meta. Let that sink in. The guidelines state: “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta’s changes to policing will lead to clash with EU and UK, say experts

Politicians criticise Mark Zuckerberg’s choice to scrap factcheckers, affecting Facebook, Instagram and Threads

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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)

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Moore, M. E. “We Have Never Been Acafans: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Approach to Media Fandom”. Journal of Posthumanism, vol. 4, no. 3, Dec. 2024, pp. 177-90. #FanStudies journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/v...

Congratulations to our director, @drmichellekaufman.bsky.social, who co-edited this volume of Global LGBTQ Health that received a 5-star review from Doody Enterprises, Inc. This #OAbook is the first-known book to date that comprehensively covers global LGBTQ health. Free download: bit.ly/4940e0B

my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...

I love this. It’s a great example of theory being really put to work, and it raises so many questions about research ethics in a real (rather than tickbox) way. Lots of relevance beyond its specific topic of boys/ masculinity for all kinds of research.

How to be a writer, #35790000: Wake at 4 am from terrifying dream Open laptop, add new and terrifying scene to WIP Go back to sleep Wake up again, read new and terrifying scene with no memory of having written it WTF, subconscious Tea

Article on LinaBell, a mascot at Shanghai Disneyland and the surrounding fandom

Fan Studies Network@fanstudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

New in Media, Culture & Society Saiyinjiya, A., Gu, Y., Lei, Y., Meng, X., & Literat, I. Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom #FanStudies doi.org/10.1177/0163...

I am very pleased to announce that after so many years, my article on creating WhatsApp group chats as a research method with #Eurovision fans is now published! Sadly its not open access, but please let me know if you'd like a copy :D rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper explores how social media ‘group chats’ were developed and applied as a digital research method. Group chats were created using the social media platform WhatsApp to investigate issues reg....

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What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):

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New publication alert 🔔 🔔Catching up on article promotions, very proud of Fiona O’Rourke for amazing work leading on this article from the ESRC funded #ladculture research. We explore and theorise men’s homosociality in private online chat groups. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘We’re respectful boys … we’re not misogynistic!’: analysing defensive, contradictory and changing performances of masculinity within young men’s in-person and digitally mediated homosocial spaces

This paper critically examines and theorizes how digital technologies and forms of communication, such as men-only private chat groups, facilitate and mediate the forms of masculinity young heteros...

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Can anyone recommend any really good writing on the aesthetics/appreciation of the post-industrial landscape, particularly (though not necessarily confined to) the UK? @illuminations.bsky.social - I feel like this might be something you could help with? New field for me - would like some guidance!

Call For Papers: Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories: A two-day international conference-19th/20th June 2025 @ManMetUni docs.google.com/document/d/1...