Fan Studies: “You can do a PhD on that?!”
By Christina Wurst Why study (Anglophone) fan cultures? When you mention that you are writing a PhD on fan cultures,...
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Civil Conversations About Faith: A Sociolinguist’s View
By Dr. Linda Sauer Bredvik To paraphrase Nietzsche—is religion dead, and have we killed it? Contrary to predictions by sociologists...
Viral Media: The COVID-19 Infodemic, Black Lives Matter, and the Future of the Digital Public Sphere
By Lee A. Flamand, PhD As the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and altered patterns of daily life for people...
Sticking Together – Communal Coping with COVID-19 Through Language
By Aline Schmidt Language is sticky. It sticks labels to the objects in our world. It binds things, people and...
The Art of the Quote: Trump, Social Media, and the Uses of Literary Reference
by Tim Sommer There’s a lot one can squeeze into a 280-character tweet – an insight that few users of...
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Really a “Perfect Foil for the Pro-Trump Media”? – A Word on the American Media Landscape
by Aleksandra Polińska – The latest midterm elections in the United States have brought many changes to the country’s political...