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Affective Outcomes of Membership in a Sport Fan Community [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
In this mini-review, we shed light on the important, yet under researched topic area in sport management – understanding the role that emotion plays for members of sport fan communities.
Brandon Mastromartino, James J. Zhang
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Fan leaders’ control on Xiao Zhan's Chinese fan community

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
Fans of Chinese media celebrity Xiao Zhan provide a case study of the existence of a highly centralized, well-trained fan community in Chinese media fandom, in which a majority of the fans are controlled and exploited by a faction of fan leaders.
Xueyin Wu
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Madonna and Her Multicultural Fan Community

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
Analysis of Madonna as the center of a community demonstrating how women can exist at the center of life in a deep community structure.
Rick Pulos
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Effects of Online Fan Community Interactions on Well-Being and Sense of Virtual Community [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2023
Soyoung Wang, Seongcheol Kim, Kim Seongcheol   +2 more
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Inspiring Contributions: Fan Leaders’ Directives and Encouragement in the Chinese Online Celebrity Fan Community

Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture
In the neoliberal era, there is a new phenomenon where numerous fans follow fan leaders’ instructions to make tangible or intangible contributions to support celebrities, which has exacerbated economic polarization.
Xiao Yiqing, Ahadzadeh Ashrafsadat
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Keep the Fire Burning: Exploring the Hierarchies of Music Fandom and the Motivations of Superfans

Media and Communication, 2021
The Internet has changed how music fans come together and how the music industry connects to and communicates with fans. To understand the incentives for becoming a fan and why fans take part in an artist brand, this article considers the diversity in a ...
Jessica Edlom, Jenny Karlsson
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A Study on Changes in the Aspects of the Music Fan Community: From the Point of View of What Motivates Generation Z

AAOS Transactions, 2022
The Japanese music industry has changed significantly since around 2000, and the music package market has declined by 60% in the last 20 years. It has been said that this is due to the progress of ICT.
Akira NAKAGAWA
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How One Direction prepared young women for the revolution

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020
The One Direction fandom demonstrates the ways in which the online networks common to fandom can play a critical role in the informal training and education of young women.
Rachel O'Leary Carmona
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Interview with Henry Jenkins

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008
An interview with Henry Jenkins focusing on Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), and Jenkins's academic research into fan and participatory cultures.
TWC Editor
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Censorship and Chinese slash fans

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
After the Archive of Our Own (AO3), which housed many Chinese fan works, was blocked in China in February 2020, Chinese slash fans had to decide what to do.
Yudan Pang
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