This paper argues for the renewal of popular geopolitics through the adoption of a research
agenda that emphasizes everyday life. Popular geopolitics as commonly practiced has …

At the 2009 Emmy awards, host Neil Patrick Harris reprised his role as Dr. Horrible from the
three-part-musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog (iTunes, 2008). This had been written and …

Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online.
Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms …

This article explores the concept of the binge as viewing protocol associated with fan
practices, industry practice and linked to 'cult'and 'quality'serialised content. Viewing binge …

Social media complicate the very nature of public life. In this article, we consider how
technology reconfigures publicness, blurs' audiences' and publics, and alters what it means …

This fifth edition of Visual Methodologies contains some significant differences from its
predecessor. The opening chapters have been reorganised to provide a clearer introduction …

The one thing in life that we can be certain of–in addition to death and taxes–is
impermanence. Everything changes: our world changes and we change with it. And so it is …

Reality TV is popular entertainment. And yet a common way to start a conversation about it is
'I wouldn't want anyone to know this but…'Why do people love and love to hate reality TV …

Introduction: why still study fans?/Cornel Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington--
Fan texts and objects--The death of the reader?: literary theory and the study of texts in …