ILL EFFECTS

We are having a summer break. This gives you the perfect opportunity to catch up with anything you've not listened to! Our episodes so far!

New series, new episode. open.spotify.com/episode/6gp0Xa…

✨ Our SMIDGE colleague @NybroPetersen presented her research at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield! 🎉Her talk, All the World’s a Clue: Forensic Play as Participatory Practice between Fandom and Conspiracy Theories, explored the overlap between fan culture and conspiracy theories. This panel highlighted how fan-like practices influence political propaganda and online radicalization. Insightful research into how online communities shape narratives in unexpected ways! #DigitalCulture #FanStudies #ConspiracyTheories #MediaStudies #ParticipatoryCulture #InternetResearch #Fanspiracy smidgeproject.eu/post/exploring…

@memories_child @RacWood 😂😂

@illeffectspod @RacWood I mean I know Rach's stuff is good... Do I need to add an addendum that I'm speaking solely about the day 😂

Finally an excellent paper by Ben Litherland and @Racwood looking at responses to the climate crisis on r/gaming and a call to cultural studies scholars to engage with audiences on this. I believe there's also a paper coming called Meme-ing while the world burns.

@NybroPetersen The ill effects of Musk not shutting the fuck up.

Just reached 3k downloads for season 1 of Ill Effects. ❤️ We start recording season 2 next week. Sorry for not posting more on this app, but it's a hellsite run by a fascist.

Our appeal lost. We are in YouTube jail lmao

Just had to appeal our Cuties episode on YouTube for inciting violence and encouraging conspiracy theories. I'm not sure that was the pitch of the episode. 🙄

@AllyFogg The days when the far right had been defeated once and for all because Nick Griffin looked like a twat on QT, Joey Barton was widely viewed to be a great proletarian philosopher, and Twitter was going to usher in an era of unprecedented global peace and democracy. Weird times.

Anyone else remember that weird period around 2012 when Quilliam claimed to have deradicalised Tommy Robinson & made him into a nice centrist liberal? Lasted about a week.

We are having a summer break. This gives you the perfect opportunity to catch up with anything you've not listened to! Our episodes so far!

This is as upsetting to us as it is to you, but to understand the modern American right then you also need to understand the last 40 years of pro wrestling.

We explore that history in this episode. open.spotify.com/episode/7cr2uB…

"We are keen to blame anything from smartphones to social media to video games for the problems that our kids are experiencing – anything, that is, except ourselves."

🤮🤮🤮 theguardian.com/games/article/…

Excited to announce two related publications from the latest issue of MOVIE! 1) My interview with Richard Dyer about aesthetics and textual analysis; 2) an audiovisual essay of sorts, inspired by one strand of our conversation, 'Reading With the Grain'. Extract here, links below.

Academics: if you're including any episodes in your reading lists or modules for the new academic year and would like us to do supporting guest talks or something similar, drop us a line at illeffectspod@gmail.com

Can the media sway an election? open.spotify.com/episode/3CxlG1…

Did The Beatles make fans hysterical? open.spotify.com/episode/1a8J9O…