Surveys
Shipping Survey: Methodology and Tools
Commas, smushed ship names, and one long-suffering data professional.
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Surveys
Shippers on Shipping
What is shipping? Our survey’s 16,513 self-identified shippers...did not agree.
Episodes
Episode 99: The Shipping Answers
17,391 people took our shipping survey. We dig into the responses.
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Episode 98: The After Effect
What happens when different kinds of fans clash over their interpretations of a celebrity?
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Episode 97: The Shipping Question
What is shipping—and what do we mean when we say we’re doing it?
Episodes
Episode 96: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 4
Listener mail on genderbending, kink memes, imagines, and more.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 11: The Marvel-Industrial Complex
The military and the MCU, from Iron Man to Captain Marvel.
Episodes
Episode 95: “Back To The Fans”
What are you really saying, Jason Reitman?
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Episode 94: Save Our Show (It’s A Metaphor)
Fans can gather thousands of signatures—but does it ever make a difference?
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Episode 93: User-Generated Content
What is exploitative—and what is just fans having fun?
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Episode 92: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 3
Listener mail on future fandom platforms, TV revivals, happy endings, and more.
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Episode 91: Casey Fiesler
An information science professor on platforms, research ethics, and Tumblr’s algorithms.