American Behavioral Scientist Special Issue
Fan Controversies
Guest edited by Rebecca Williams and Lucy Bennett
Table of Contents
- Editorial: Fan Controversies – Rebecca Williams & Lucy Bennett
- Groupies, Fangirls, and Shippers: The Endurance of a Gender Stereotype – Ysabel Gerrard
- Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening – Simone Driessen
- Can the Celebrity Speak? Controversies and the Eulogistic Fandom of Shah Rukh Khan – Abir Misra
- Bigmouth Strikes Again: The Controversies of Morrissey and Cancel Culture – Simone Pereira de Sá & Thiago Pereira Alberto
- “The Fans of Michael Jackson v Wade Robson and James Safechuck”: Forensic Fandom and the Staging of a Media Tribunal – Philipp Dominik Keidl
- “Hey! Mr Prime Minister!”: The Simpsons Against the Liberal Party, Anti-fandom, and the ‘Politics of Against’ – Renee Barnes & Renee Middlemost
- Fans of Q: The Stakes of QAnon’s Functioning as Political Fandom – CarrieLynn Reinhard, David Stanley and Linda Howell
Dr Rebecca Williams 