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Vol 27 (2018): Tumblr and Fandom, Edited by Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein
Editorial
- Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein, Tumblr and fandom
Theory
- Evan Hayles Gledhill, Bricolage and the culture of the margins in the romantic era and the digital age
- Bo Allesøe Christensen & Thessa Jensen, The JohnLock Conspiracy, fandom eschatology, and longing to belong
- Christopher M. Cox, “Ms. Marvel,” Tumblr, and the industrial logics of identity in digital spaces
Praxis
- Tosha R. Taylor, Digital Space and Walking Dead fandom’s Team Delusional
- Rebecca Williams, Tumblr’s GIF culture and the infinite image: Lone fandom, ruptures, and working throu gh on a microblogging platform
- Indira Neill Hoch, Content, conduct, and apologies in Tumblr fandom tags
- Natalie Chew, Tumblr as counterpublic space for fan mobilization
- Jessica Hautsch, Tumblr’s Supernatural fandom and the rhetorical affordance of GIFs
Symposium
- Lily Winterwood, Discourse is the new wank: A reflection on linguistic change in fandom
- Elizabeth M. Downey, Sheryl Lyn Bundy, Connie K. Shih, Emily Hamilton-Honey, A “Glee”-ful collaboration: Academic networking in the Tumblr world
- Daisy Pignett, “Remember a week ago when Tom Hiddleston could do no wrong?” Tumblr reactions to the loss of an Internet boyfriendi
- Judith May Fathallah, Polyphony on Tumblr: Reading the hate blog as pastiche
- Paul J. Booth, Tumbling or stumbling? Misadventures with Tumblr in the fan studies classroom
- Mélanie Bourdaa, Tumblr as a methodological tool for data archiving: The case of a Calzona Tumblr
- Lori Morimoto, Roundtable: Tumblr and fandom
Book review
- Anne Jamison, “Rogue archives: Digital cultural memory and media fandom,” by Abigail De Kosnik
- Samantha Anne Close, “Cult media, fandom, and textiles,” by Brigid Cherry
- Hye-Kyung Lee, “Transnational audiences: Media reception on a global scale,” by Adrian Athique
- Kathryn Hemmann, “Manga in America: Transnational book publishing and the domestication of Japanese comics,” by Casey Brienza
Hey Tumblr fandom, look! An entire special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures about us!! (We’ll try to post some quotes and article summaries here over the next few weeks.)
TWC No. 27: Tumblr and Fandom