[CORRECTION: ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH] Feminist Fandom, 1st May, 4-5pm GMT+1

[Briony Hannell]

Dear all, 

I’d like to issue a correction for my earlier email announcing my online book launch later this week. In the subject and main body, I incorrectly listed this Wednesday’s date as the 2nd. The book launch is this Wednesday, which of course is May 1st. My apologies for any confusion! It’s been a busy day.

All the best,

Briony 

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 14:12, Briony Hannell <b.ha...@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear all,

I'd like to invite you to attend an online launch for my book Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr this Wednesday, 1st May, from 16:00-17:00 UK time (GMT+1). I will be giving an overview of the book's central themes and findings and will be joined by Dr Ysabel Gerrard as a discussant. You can register to attend via Eventbrite.

About Feminist Fandom:

Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies, and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture, and participatory networked digital cultures. Using a layered methodological approach comprising participant observation, surveys and interviews, Feminist Fandom constructs a multifaceted ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived, and felt through digital fannish spaces on the microblogging and social networking platform Tumblr.

Feminist Fandom captures the richness and diversity of young people’s creative engagement with the competing meanings and representations of digital feminism, locating Tumblr as a fruitful site for young people to engage in interest-based feminist activism, community building, and knowledge sharing. The experiences of over 300 feminist fans captured throughout the book speak to how broader shifts within feminist practice, theory, and activism over the past decade have shaped and informed the social and cultural practices of media fandom, while also complicating utopian framings of these practices to reveal the contradictory and ambivalent processes of inclusion and exclusion at work within them.

About Briony Hannell:

Dr Briony Hannell is in the final months of her role as a University Teacher in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. In July, she will be joining the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Sociology. She has a PhD in Politics from the University of East Anglia, where she previously worked as an Associate Lecturer and Research Assistant. Her research to date examines young people’s engagements with feminisms, and social justice more broadly, in and through digital cultures. She is a founding member of the UK Girls’ Studies Network, has published in Transformative Works & Cultures and Girlhood Studies, and has contributed to The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication (Wiley, 2020) and Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation (Routledge, forthcoming).

Best wishes,

Briony

Dr Briony Hannell (she/her)

University Teacher in Sociology

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Department of Sociological Studies

The University of Sheffield

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RECENT WORK: 

Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr via Bloomsbury Academic

"How Tumblr Raised a Generation of Feminists" via The Conversation