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A new paper on popular culture by Natalia Samutina was published in "International Journal of Cultural Studies". The paper is titled "Emotional landscapes of reading: fan fiction in the context of contemporary reading practices" and discusses the passionate immersive reading of fan fiction communities. See the abstract of the paper.
Natalia Samutina invited as a guest lecturer to the University of Amsterdam. At the EAST Seminar on 11 November, she presented her research in the framework of the project " Participatory Cultures: Post-socialist new media practices". On 12 November and 13 November, Natalia Samutina participated in the conference "European Fan Cultures 2015" at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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