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Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead at University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings 💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams

Dr Rebecca Williams

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Fandom Encyclopedia: I’m seeking authors for 1000-word entries in a forthcoming Pop Culture Fandoms encyclopedia, published by Bloomsbury Press. Please email 200-300 word abstracts to [email protected] by Aug 30, 2026!

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When two worlds meet in the 미로 (Miro): K-pop Comes to South Africa | The Blog

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

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Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Remminga, A. (2026). Obscene content: policing queer media, erotica, and fan creations in Australia. Porn Studies, 1–12. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/2326...

get Fandom is Ugly for your Pride month reading! Learn how fan fiction resists heteronormativity but reproduces white supremacy, queer fan activism gets ugly and ignores racism, and the Anti Wars foreground sexuality and erase race. 40% off with code PRIDE40 nyupress.org/978147982496...

Dr Rebecca Williams

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Ended up on BBC Wales Today last night, commenting on the Doctor Who hiatus and potential impact on Creative Industries in Wales. Could have talked for hours!

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Obscene content: policing queer media, erotica, and fan creations in Australia

Australia has an extensive, and prolific, history of censorship. Laws concerning obscenity, particularly the Customs Act 1901, carry severe penalties, yet are inconsistently applied across state an...

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Mermaid fanfiction 🤝 King Alfred the Great... Somehow both ended up in the peer review pipeline at the same time. 🧜‍♀️📜 Delighted to see my mermaid article now published online in The Journal of Fandom Studies, with the Alfred article hopefully following before long. ✨ #FanStudies #FandomStudies

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Winner, 2025 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, given by the National Communication AssociationHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public cult...

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Fandom Is Ugly

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Immersion is increasingly defining customer experiences in a variety of industries, yet too often creators of immersive environments rely on spectacle, advanced technology, or scale, which fails to cr...

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Why the Best Immersive Experiences Succeed

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Fan Advisory Boards have been misundertood. This is why it matters youtu.be/SvnEpjVZdZE?... #fanengagement

Fan Studies Network

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It's been four years since the Premier League announced that every club in the competition would have to have a Fan Advisory Board. It wasn't long after the collapse of the European Super League,…

Fan Advisory Boards have been misunderstood. This is why it matters

Fuelled by social media, the market for children's skincare is booming. Experts fear for the long-term impact on girls

Cosmeticorexia: How girls are falling down a skincare rabbit hole

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Think Fan Engagement