Mel Stanfill

976 total citations
40 papers, 359 citations indexed

About

Mel Stanfill is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Mel Stanfill has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 359 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Gender Studies and 15 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Mel Stanfill's work include Digital Games and Media (20 papers), Gender, Feminism, and Media (16 papers) and Asian Culture and Media Studies (13 papers). Mel Stanfill is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (20 papers), Gender, Feminism, and Media (16 papers) and Asian Culture and Media Studies (13 papers). Mel Stanfill collaborates with scholars based in United States and Russia. Mel Stanfill's co-authors include Angharad N. Valdivia, Alexis Lothian, Anastasia Salter, Anne Sullivan, Iván Garibay, William Rand and Stephen M. Fiore and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Media & Society and Communication Theory.

In The Last Decade

Mel Stanfill

33 papers receiving 327 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mel Stanfill United States 12 235 146 108 63 45 40 359
Bridget Blodgett United States 8 255 1.1× 177 1.2× 58 0.5× 14 0.2× 28 0.6× 15 331
Bingchun Meng United Kingdom 10 182 0.8× 103 0.7× 142 1.3× 65 1.0× 7 0.2× 21 350
Michael Z. Newman United States 8 165 0.7× 112 0.8× 126 1.2× 35 0.6× 97 2.2× 21 393
Karen Hellekson 4 182 0.8× 114 0.8× 57 0.5× 82 1.3× 34 0.8× 6 285
Deborah Castro Netherlands 8 122 0.5× 55 0.4× 75 0.7× 32 0.5× 33 0.7× 23 267
Fredrik Stiernstedt Sweden 9 183 0.8× 44 0.3× 140 1.3× 18 0.3× 12 0.3× 44 353
Will Brooker United Kingdom 11 229 1.0× 124 0.8× 79 0.7× 47 0.7× 70 1.6× 29 407
Yupei Zhao China 9 184 0.8× 43 0.3× 35 0.3× 25 0.4× 25 0.6× 25 257
Brianna Dym United States 9 178 0.8× 62 0.4× 97 0.9× 24 0.4× 7 0.2× 18 317
Cornel Sandvoss United Kingdom 9 377 1.6× 330 2.3× 148 1.4× 109 1.7× 84 1.9× 15 559

Countries citing papers authored by Mel Stanfill

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mel Stanfill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mel Stanfill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mel Stanfill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mel Stanfill based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mel Stanfill. Mel Stanfill is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2025). Don’t catch the woke mind virus: Social justice terminology as meme in the right-wing Twitter ecosystem. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
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Stanfill, Mel, Anastasia Salter, & Anne Sullivan. (2024). They Can't Play with Us: Pronoun Controversies and the Reinforcement of Heteronormativity in Games. 1–9.
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Stanfill, Mel. (2024). Fandom Is Ugly. New York University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2023). Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste. The Communication Review. 26(1). 91–93. 1 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2021). Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics. Cultural Studies. 36(6). 953–980. 3 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel, Anastasia Salter, & Anne Sullivan. (2021). Orange is Sus: Among Us and Political Play. 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Salter, Anastasia, et al.. (2021). Communities of making: Exploring parallels between fandom and open source. First Monday. 1 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2021). Can't nobody tell me nothin’: ‘Old Town Road’, resisting musical norms, and queer remix reproduction. Popular Music. 40(3-4). 347–363. 3 indexed citations
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Salter, Anastasia & Mel Stanfill. (2020). A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy. University Press of Mississippi eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Salter, Anastasia & Mel Stanfill. (2020). A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2020). A Taxonomy of User Actions on Social Networking Sites. 233–234. 2 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2019). Exploiting Fandom. University of Iowa Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2019). Fans of color in femslash. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 29.
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2019). My NSFW video has partial occlusion: deepfakes and the technological production of non-consensual pornography. Porn Studies. 7(4). 398–414. 19 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2018). Mods as Lightning Rods: A Typology of Video Game Mods, Intellectual Property, and Social Benefit/Harm. Social & Legal Studies. 28(4). 517–536. 14 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2017). Where the femslashers are: Media on the lesbian continuum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24. 1 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel, et al.. (2014). Fandom and/as labor. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 34 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2014). The interface as discourse: The production of norms through web design. New Media & Society. 17(7). 1059–1074. 71 indexed citations
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Stanfill, Mel. (2012). Finding Birds of a Feather: Multiple Memberships and Diversity Without Divisiveness in Communication Research. Communication Theory. 22(1). 1–24. 11 indexed citations

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