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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Ata mârie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Please join us on
<b>Tuesday 9<sup>th</sup> April</b> at<b> 10am</b> on <b>Zoom</b> and in <b>Burns 4</b> for a talk by
<b><i><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/briony-hannell">Dr Briony Hannell<span style="font-style:normal"> (Sheffield)</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">“’Fandom introduced me to feminism’”: F</span></b><b><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">eminisms, digital media fandom and paratextual feminist
identity development on Tumblr</span></b><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none">This paper locates media fandom and fan cultures on the microblogging and social networking platform Tumblr as a site at which meanings of feminism are
<i>para</i>textually constructed, negotiated, and contested. The circulation and paratextual (re)framing of popular cultural texts within digital fan communities offer interpretative frameworks for young people to
<i>make feminist meaning</i> of texts, as well as <i>make meaning of feminism </i>
itself in ways that call for a (re-)evaluation of the complex relationship between popular media culture, media reception, and feminist identity development. This research draws upon 342 responses to an in-depth narrative survey exploring young people’s engagements
with feminism, featuring participants from 39 countries. In doing so, this paper offers an introduction to several key themes of my recent monograph,
<i>Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr</i> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Dr Briony Hannell is the author of
<i>Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr </i>(Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), and is in the final months of her post as a University Teacher in Sociology at the University of Sheffield in the UK. In July, she will be joining the University
of Manchester as a Lecturer in Digital Sociology. Her research examines young people’s engagements with feminisms, and social justice more broadly, in and through digital cultures. Her research interests centre intersectional feminist theory, digital identities
and belonging, popular (digital) media cultures, and digital in/equalities. She has published in
<i>Transformative Works & Cultures</i>, <i>Girlhood Studies, Celebrity Studies, </i>
and <i>Participations, </i>and has contributed to <i>The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Communication
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">(2020)<i>
</i>and <i>Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation</i> (Routledge, forthcoming).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Please circulate with interested parties – all welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Rosemary Overell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2021).
<a href="https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/c92d3d05-24b9-47af-b1cf-378523bacfba/content">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Voicing the real in extreme metal</span></a>. <i>Continental Thought & Theory</i>,
<i>3</i>(3), 136-163.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222"><span style="color:#0563C1">LinkedIn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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