M/C Journal

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. M/C Journal is a fully blind-, peer-reviewed academic journal, open to submissions from anyone. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised around a one-word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or more guest editors with a particular interest in that theme. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles.

Current Issue

Vol. 28 No. 3 (2025): fan

Edited by Samantha Vilkins and Sebastian Svegaard

Image: A photo collage of Unsplash images of crowds, concertgoers, protestors, Taylor Swift, and election information, by Samantha Vilkins.

Published: 2025-08-13

Editorial

  • Fandom and Politics

    Sebastian F. K. Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins

Feature

  • They Not like Us Cultural Aggregation and Ambiguous Meaning-Making in Internet Culture

    Guilherme Giolo, Daniel Trottier, Simone Driessen

Articles

  • “Lavender Haze” in the Airways Anti-Fandom, Ecopolitics, and Taylor Swift

    Kaela Joseph, Tanya Cook
  • The Discreet Charm of Swiftology

    David Antolínez
  • Racebending and Adaptation Fan Reaction to AMC’s Interview with the Vampire

    Rhiannon Bury
  • The Sopranos Re-Politicised Examining a New Wave of Conservative Fans on Reddit

    Jack Magnotta
  • Like Lady Godiva Lady Godiva’s Fandom from Fiction to Activism

    Elizabeth Reid Boyd
  • The Platformed Discourse of ‘Fans’ in the Chinese Creator Market

    Crystal Abidin, Jia Guo
  • Aura, Identity, and Celebrities in the Digital Age

    David van der Merwe
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