Publications

Forthcoming
Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict and Complicity in Fandom. University of Iowa Press. Co-edited with Simone Driessen and Benjamin Litherland. Spring 2025.

“Exploring ‘Unreal’ places: Virtual production and the materiality of film-making” in Mitchell, S., Perry, C., Redmond, S. and Torre, L. (eds.) Virtual Production: What’s Real? Routledge. Co-authored with Jon Swords, Nina Willment and Nick Jones.

“We’re now living in a post-cover-up, post-conspiracy age”: The X-Files and the Changing Forms of Conspiratorial Culture” in Spinelli, R. (ed) Lizards, Illuminati & Deepfakes: Conspiracy Theories at Play in Popular Culture. McFarland.

“Playing Their Own Private Detectives: Digital Witnessing, Forensic Fandom and True Crime Narratives” in Gies, L. (ed.) Trial by Media: Justice Under the Spotlight. Palgrave. Co-written with Steff El Madawi.

“Women are born with horror in their bloodstream: Horror tattoos and the embodiment of fandom” in Egan, K. and Rendell, J. (eds) Researching Horror Fans and Audiences in the Twenty-First Century. Edinburgh University Press.

“#Deppdelusion: On controversial faces, fandom and digital platforms” in Kerrigan, P., Siapera, E. and Farries, E. (eds.) Platforming Cancel Culture: Intersections Across Digital Media, Culture and Identity. Routledge. Co-written with Simone Driessen.

Jones, B. “The Fandom Menace: #Reylo, Racism and Toxic Fandom”, Proceedings of Realizing Resistance II, in Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship.

2024
Jones, B. “The importance of professional skills within the changing media landscape of the UK screen industries: a case study of the ‘disruptive’ phenomenon of virtual production,” Media Education and Practice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741136.2024.2336759

Special Issue: “From Fan Citizenship to “Fanspiracies”?” in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Co-edited with Simone Driessen and Benjamin Litherland. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565241236005

2023
Jones, B. “‘You believe what you want to believe—that’s what everybody does now’: The X-Files, fake news and the rise of QAnon” in Rodgers, D. and Fenwick, J. (eds) The Legacy of The X-Files. Bloomsbury pp. 149-165.

Jones, B. “The Girl Who Waited Survived: Fan Rewritings of Amy Pond”, in Booth, P, Hill, M. Piedmont, J. and Roberts, T. (eds.) Adventures in Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader. Bloomsbury pp. 195-200.

Jones, B. The Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files. Fayetteville Mafia Press.

Jones, B. “Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media” in Lake-Walsh, G. (ed) True Crime in American Media. Routledge, pp. 163-179.

Jones, B. “Neo-Cult and the Altered Audience: Reviving cult TV for the post-TV age.” In “Genre After Media” edited by Lauren S. Berlinger and Johnathan Cohn, special issue, Television and New Media. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15274764231171068

Jones, B. ““I’ll see you again in twenty five years”: Life Course Fandom, Nostalgia and Cult Television Revivals, in Open Cultural Studies Vol 7 (1).

Jones, B. “Websleuthing, participatory culture and the ethics of true crime content” In “Investigating True Crime & The Media” edited by Barbara Henderson, special issue, Ethical Space The International Journal of Communication Ethics, Vol. 19 (3/4).

2022
Lincoln Geraghty, Bertha Chin, Lori Morimoto, Bethan Jones, Kristina Busse, Francesca Coppa, Kristine Michelle “Khursten” Santos and Louisa Ellen Stein. “Roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction” in “The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction,” edited by Lincoln Geraghty, Bertha Chin, Lori Morimoto and Bethan Jones, special issue Humanities 11(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/h11050120.

Jones, B. “Reopening The X-Files: Generational Fandom, Gender, and Bodily Autonomy”, in Kies, B and Connor, M. (eds.) Fandom The Next Generation. University of Iowa Press.

Jones, B. “Toxic Fandom: Star Wars (Episodes VII-IX), Various (2015-19)”, in Bacon, S. (ed.) Toxic Cultures: A Companion. Peter Lang.

2021
Morimoto, Lori, Paul Booth, Ross Garner, Melanie E. S. Kohnen, Bethan Jones, E. J. Nielsen, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Rebecca Williams. “Transcultural Fan Studies in Practice: A Conversation” In “Fan Studies Pedagogies,” edited by Paul Booth and Regina Yung Lee, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 35. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.1975.

2019
Jones, B. “The Walking Dead Family is a real thing, not just a hashtag”: Experiencing Fan Tourism and Transmediality in Woodbury, Atlanta. Jomec Journal (14), pp.53–70. http://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.191 (Invited paper for special issue on Transmedia Tourism)

Jones, B. “Jafar Wars: Fan Created Paratexts in Alderaan Places,” in Proctor, W. and McCulloch, R. (Eds) Disney’s Star Wars: Forces of Participation and Reception. University of Iowa Press.

Jones, B. ““If even one person gets hurt because of those books, that’s too many.” Fifty Shades anti-fandom, lived experience and the role of the subcultural gatekeeper” in Click, M. (Ed) Dislike, Hate and Anti-Fandom in the Digital Age. New York University Press.

2018
Jones, B. “Stop moaning. I gave you my email. Give me a solution”: Walker Stalker Con, fantagonism and fanagement on social media. Participations: International Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

Jones, B. “#AskELJames, Ghostbusters, and #GamerGate: Digital Dislike and Damage Control” in Booth, P. (Ed) A Companion to Fandom and Fan Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

Jones, B. ““My Music Was on Shuffle, One of Their Songs Came On and I Had to Hit Next…”: Navigating Grief and Disgust in Lostprophets Fandom,” in Williams, R. (ed.) Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fandom, University of Iowa Press.

2017
Jones, B. ““Are you ready for this?” “I don’t know if there’s a choice.” Cult reboots, The X-Files revival, and fannish expectations” in Click, M. and Scott, S. (Eds) The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Routledge.

Jones, B. “Stories are where memories go when they’re forgotten:” Fandom, Nostalgia and the Doctor Who Experience. Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies

Jones, B. ‘When there’s blood involved, a line been crossed’: Spike/Eric slash and the fascinations of the crossover text. Journal of Horror Studies vol. 8, issue 2.

Popova, M. and Jones, B. Sex and Sexualities in Popular Culture: A Networking Knowledge Special Issue. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. vol. 10, issues 3.

Jones, B. Producing and Branding Gender in Comics: My So-Called Secret Identity and the Ambivalence of an Alternative Address. Palabra Clave, 20 (4).

2016
Jones, B. “‘I hate Beyoncé and I don’t care who knows it’: Towards an ethics of studying anti-fandom”. Journal of Fandom Studies, vol. 4, no. 3.

Jones, B. and Chin, B. (2016) “Crowdfunding independence: British cinema and digital production/distribution platforms” in Hunter, I., Smith, J. and Porter, L. (Eds) The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History. Routledge.

Jones, B. and Driessen, S. (2016) “Love Me For A Reason: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Boyzone Fandom.” New Directions in Music Fan Studies, special issue of iaspm@journal. Vol 6, no. 1.

Hautsch, J., Bamber, J. and Jones, B. (2016) “EuroSlayage 2016 Report”. Slayage 14.2 [44], Summer 2016.

Jones, B. (2016) “‘I will throw you off your ship and you will drown and die’: Death threats, intra-fandom hate, and the performance of fangirling” in Bennett, L. and Booth, P. (eds) Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Palgrave, pp. 53-66.

Bennet, L., Chin, B., and Jones, B. (2016) “Between Ethics, Privacy, Fandom and Social Media: New Trajectories that Challenge Media Producer/Fan Relations” in Davisson, A. and Booth, P. (eds) Controversies in Digital Ethics. Palgrave, pp. 107-122.

Jones, B. (2016) “‘My Inner Goddess is Smouldering and Not in a Good Way’: An Anti-Fannish account of Consuming Fifty Shades“. Intensities Journal of Cult Media. Vol. 8. Spring 2016

2015
Hester, H., Jones, B., and Taylor-Harman, S. (2015) “Giffing a fuck: non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and female fandom”. Porn Studies 2 (4), 356-366

Jones, B. (2015) “Antifan Activism as a Response to MTV’s The Valleys.” In “European Fans and European Fan Objects: Localization and Translation,” edited by Anne Kustritz, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0585.

Jones, B. (2015) “My Little Pony, tolerance is magic: Gender policing and Brony anti-fandom” in Journal of Popular Television. Vol 3 (1): 119-125.

Bennett, L., Chin, B. and Jones, B. (eds) (2015) Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society.Peter Lang.

Jones, B. (2015) “Fannish Tattooing and Sacred Identity.” In “Performance and Performativity in Fandom,” edited by Lucy Bennett and Paul J. Booth, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0626.

Bennett, L., Chin, B. and Jones, B. (eds) (2015) ‘ Crowdfunding: A New Media & Society special issue.’ New Media & Society, 17 (2): 141-148.

2014
Jones, B. (2014) “Aca-fan research on fannish sites: ethical and moral challenges to using social media” in Kandy Woodfield (ed) Social Media in Social Research: Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries. NatCen Social Research.

Clayton, W. and Jones, B. (2014) ‘Introduction to the Special Issue: The Transmedia Relationship Between Film/TV Texts and Board Games. Intensities Journal of Cult Media. vol. 7. August 2014.

Jones, B. (2014) ‘Unusual Geography: Discworld Board Games and Paratextual L-Space’. Intensities Journal of Cult Media. Vol. 7. August 2014.

Jones, B. (2014) ‘Normal Human Interest in Werewolves and Vampires Bonking’ in Harman, S. and Clayton, W. (eds) Screening Twilight: Contemporary Cinematic Approaches. I.B.Tauris.

Jones, B. (2014) ‘Written on the body: experiencing affect and identity in my fannish tattoos’. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 16. June 2014.

Jones, B. (2014) ‘Fifty Shades of Fan Labour: Exploitation and Fifty Shades of Grey’. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 15. March 2014.

Chin, B., Jones, B., McNutt, M. and Pebler, L. (2014) ‘TWC Symposium Dialogue: Veronica Mars Kickstarter and crowdfunding’. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 15. March 2014.

2013
Deller, R.A., Harman, S. and Jones, B. (eds) (2013) Special issue of Sexualities on the Fifty Shades… series, Sexualities, 16 (8).

Deller, R.A., Harman, S. and Jones, B. (2013) ‘Introduction: Reading the Fifty Shades phenomenon’. Sexualities, 16 (8): 859-863.

Harman, S. and Jones, B. (2013) ‘Fifty Shades of Ghey: Snark Fandom and the Figure of the Anti-Fan’. Sexualities 16 (8): 951-968.

Jones, B. (2013) ‘Slow Evolution: ‘First Time Fics’ and The X-Files Porn Parody’. Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance. 6 (3): 369-386.

Jones, B. (2013) ‘The Fandom Is Out There: Social Media and The X-Files Online’ in Barton, K (ed) FanCULTure: Digital Fandom in the 21st Century. McFarland.

Jones, B. (2013). ‘The G-Woman and The Fowl One: Fic and Femslash in The X-Files Fandom’ in Jamison, A (ed) Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. Smart Pop Books.

Bennett, L. and Jones, B. (2013). ‘Blurring Boundaries, Crossing Divides: An Interview with Will Brooker’. Participations 10:1.

Bury, R, Deller, R, Greenwood, A and Jones, B. (2013) ‘From Usenet to Tumblr: The Changing Role of Social Media’. Participations 10:1.

Deller, R.A., Harman, S. and Jones, B. (2013) Reading the Fifty Shades phenomenon. Litro. 28 February 2013.

2012
Jones, B. (2012) ‘Pottermore: Encouraging or Regulating Participatory Culture‘. Magic is Might 2012 Proceedings of the International Conference. Sheffield Hallam University.

Jones, B. (2012) ‘Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire’ in Mutch, D. (ed.) The Modern Vampire and Human Identity, Palgrave.

Jones, B. (2012) ‘Being of Service: X-Files Fans and Social Engagement’. Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol. 10. June 2012.

2010
Jones, B. (2010) ‘Writing a Safe Space’. Creative Writing: Teaching Theory & Practice, 2 (2): 95-110.