[Commlist] Play, Politics, and Participation: Exploring Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks

The one-day symposium, Play, Politics, and Participation: Exploring 
Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks, will take place at 
Manchester Metropolitan University on Wednesday 30th October.

The event is free to attend, but places are limited. The draft programme 
and booking system can be found below.
Details on remote attendance will be circulated shortly.

For further information please contac (B.Litherland /at/ mmu.ac.uk)

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https://manchestergamecentre.org/events/2024/10/30/play-politics-and-participation-exploring-ambiguous-fannish-practices-in-online-networks

Wednesday 30th October, 0930 - 1530
Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, GM304

0900 – 0930: Coffees and welcome
0930 – 0945: Introductions, Ben Litherland, Bethan Jones and Simone Driessen
0945 – 1100: Panel 1 – Platforms and politics
Briony Hannell, ‘The SJW and/as the killjoy: White il/liberal 
dis/identifications with the social justice warrior within Tumblr fan 
cultures’
Adriana Amaral, Giovana Bordini and Guilherme Alves, ‘Deplatforming of 
Brazilian Stan Accounts on X. Politics and Fan Practices’
Ben Litherland & Rachel Wood, ‘Platform participatory cultures in 
climate crisis: Reddit reception of NYC wildfire smoke’
1100 – 1115: Comfort break and handover
1115 – 1245: Panel 2 – Reactions, positions, and polarization   Mark 
Johnson, ‘Ideological Tensions between Twitch and Kick: Political 
Polarisation in Live Streaming?’
Anthony Kelly, ‘“Received this from a follower”: Ambivalent Fannish 
Positionalities and Reactionary Influencer Online Content’
Sebastian Svegaard and Samantha Vilkins, ‘What Taylor Swift can tell us 
about polarisation’
Qian Huang, ‘Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and 
Performative Patriotis’
1245 – 1330: Lunch
1330 – 1430: Adrienne Massanari, ‘The Shadow Side of Play and Fandom’
1430 – 1530: Coffee, breakout, discussion, further research etc.

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