{"id":23639,"date":"2022-04-01T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=23639"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:52:50","slug":"marshall-professor-among-team-to-present-at-wondercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/marshall-professor-among-team-to-present-at-wondercon\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor among team to present at WonderCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University Psychology Professor Dr. April Fugett will lead a discussion Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Anaheim, California, on \u201cPsychology of Fanfiction, Fandoms and Shipping\u201d at WonderCon. WonderCon is part of the Comic-Con International family of conventions.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cshipping\u201d describes pairings of favorite characters into relationships, romantic or platonic. Shipping comes in many different forms. The project explores how love and fandom identification affect shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Fugett is the interim executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Marshall. She says her research team is always grateful for the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of WonderCon,\u201d Fugett said. \u201cThere is a lot of discussion in this panel about inclusivity, diversity and the importance of representation. I am excited about the opportunity to share it with a broad audience.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Fugett, the research team is made up of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Britani Black, Psy.D. \u2013 Assistant Professor from the Marshall University School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Keith Beard, Psy.D. \u2013 Professor of Psychology at Marshall University<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Kinsey \u2013 Marshall University Psy.D. Student<\/li>\n<li>Liberty Kinder \u2013 Marshall University Psy.D. Student<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While this part of their research focuses on those who identify as fanfiction readers and writers, their research also includes work on other psychological factors that impact how we interact with popular culture. For more information on the presentation, Fugett can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:fugett5@marshall.edu\">fugett5@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University Psychology Professor Dr. April Fugett will lead a discussion Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Anaheim, California, on \u201cPsychology of Fanfiction, Fandoms and Shipping\u201d at WonderCon. WonderCon is part of the Comic-Con International family of conventions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":23640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cola","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23642,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639\/revisions\/23642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}