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Fan leaders’ control on Xiao Zhan's Chinese fan community
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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Mechanisms for Interpretative Cooperation: Fan Theories in Virtual Communities [PDF]
This work focuses on analyzing fan theories as interpretive processes shared by users of virtual reading communities. Within these spaces of participatory culture, a complex strategy of interactions among its members is encouraged to formulate conjectures about the text's intentions and negotiate its degree of relevance. We have based our research on a
García Roca, Anastasio +1 more
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Discussing the Life of the Others: Doing Ethnography in the Brazilian Big Brother Fan Community
The aim of this paper is to present some of the initial results of ethnographic research conducted in early 2008 with the online fan community of the Brazilian Big Brother (BBB).
Bruno Campanella
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Affective Outcomes of Membership in a Sport Fan Community [PDF]
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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Madonna and Her Multicultural Fan Community
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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Fan communities are a socio-political resource capable of mobilizing public initiatives and movements, especially on the regional scale. Research interest in sports fan communities is steadily growing because the fan movement has established itself as a political force.
Evgeny Golovatsky, Pavel Gvozdilov
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Community Order and Spontaneous Economic Behavior: Fan Community, Fan Economy and Psychology of Cai Xukun [PDF]
Zixuan Zhou
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The Evolving Consumer Behavior: Fan Culture in Online Community
It is obvious how technology has reformed the way consumers behave. More than influencing factors to buying decision, the study of media consumers has attracted scholars to investigate various subjects related to it.
Anindya Widita
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The Characteristics and Effects of Fan Community Communication [PDF]
Jingyi Chen
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