Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr - Paperback

by Briony Hannell (Author)

Examines how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are converging and opening up informal spaces for young people to engage with feminism.

Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and bringing together media and communications, feminist cultural studies, sociology, internet studies and fan studies, Hannell locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture and participatory networked digital cultures. Feminist Fandom functions as an ethnographic account of how feminist identities are constructed, lived and felt through digital fannish spaces on the micro-blogging and social networking platform, Tumblr.

Author Biography

Briony Hannell is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. She was awarded her PhD in Politics from the University of East Anglia, UK, in 2021, and worked at the University of Sheffield from 2021 to 2024. Her research interests are in feminist cultural studies, sociology, media and communications, and internet studies. She has previously published in Girlhood Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, Feminist Media Studies, Celebrity Studies and The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication.