" This book re-evaluates the way we examine today's digital media environment By looking
at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, Digital Fandom bolsters …

Logo, a US network that launched in 2005 as an explicitly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (Lgbt) channel, has been implementing a rebranding strategy that it labels …

Discussing the mainland Chinese web series Guardian, adapted from a homoerotic “boys'
love” novel, this paper examines the practices and discourses of producers, viewers, and the …

I discuss the concept of queerbaiting as emergent from viewer readings of both textual and
paratextual content at a particular juncture of LGBT media representation. While fan works …

Purpose This pilot study explores how queer slash fanfiction writers reorient
cis/heteronormative entertainment media (EM) content to create queer information worlds …

As part of the Journal of Fandom Studies exploration of the field more than 20 years after the
publication of Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers (which has been widely cited as one of the …

In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the
identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms …

'Queerbaiting'is a pejorative fan-coined term that refers to the media practice of deliberately
hinting at, or advertising, queer representation to attract and gain the investments of LGBTQ …

Many studies have examined representations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) people in the US media. Yet they have centered on portrayals of adults or teenagers …

Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 24, special issue, Queer Female Fandom (June 15,
2017) Page 1 Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 24, special issue, Queer Female Fandom …