American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study explores how tech professionals respond to job insecurity during COVID-19. Data for this study came from 51 in-depth interviews with tech professionals employed in tech hubs on the west coast of…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This study presents the results of a quasi-experiment to assess the effects of viewing the live televised general election presidential and vice-presidential campaign debates. We contribute to a growing em…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This essay argues that the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, can be partially explained by the rise of what we call presidential eschatology, a religious master narrative that r…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This essay argues that Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D-PA), in running for the open US Senate seat in Pennsylvania, is attempting to appeal to disaffected Trump voters, showing what the “forgotten men and w…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. On May 14, 2019, Morrissey performed on American television using a pin of the far right For Britain party. When criticized, he succinctly responded on Twitter: “Why don’t you have freedom of speech? Or fr…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Memes and popular culture have become central to our understanding of contemporary politics. Recent fan scholarship has shown how popular culture encourages audiences into discussion, participation, creati…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the participation of celebrities and their fans in media controversies. As techno-social events, controversies are constitutive of discursive battles, between numerically conscious p…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The purpose of this special issue is to offer new perspectives on fan cultures which respond to changes and controversies that have happened since the last American Behavioral Scientist special issue on fa…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print.
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Affective activation, and the community engagement it fosters, is the driving mechanism of all fandoms, irrespective of the specific “objects of affection” around which they coalesce. These centralized obj…