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The Affective Economy and Online Fan Communities

2020
This chapter explores participation and co-production in affective media experiences in Johnny & Associates' online fan communities. Johnny & Associates is a Japanese all-male talent management company established in the 1960s. As a pioneer in the idol industry, Johnny & Associates and artists under its management have been highly ...
Nur Aliah Mansor, Rizalniyani Abdul Razak, Zam Zuriyati Mohamad, Norrina Din, Arbaiah Abdul Razak   +4 more
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Computer Game Fan Communities, Community Management, and Structures of Membership

Games and Culture, 2017
Community management is an important but relatively understudied facet of computer game development. This article begins filling this gap by examining how community managers in the computer game industry manage communities of players through the establishment of structures of membership: positions and practices designed to encourage membership ...
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I’m a big fan. A journey into TV fan communities

2017
Κατά τη διάρκεια των 20 τελευταίων χρόνων,η Αμερικανική τηλεόραση έχει κυριαρχήσει σε όλο τον κόσμο.Εκατομμύρια ανθρώπων ακολουθούν μια πληθώρα από τηλεοπτικά προγράμματα και έχουν μετατραπεί από παθητικοί τηλεθεατές σε ενεργούς φανς.Δημιουργούν κοινότητες,φόρουμς και ομάδες στις οποίες συζητούν ζητήματα που σχετίζονται με τα αγαπημένα τους τηλεοπτικά ...
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Communication in online fan communities: The ethics of intimate strangers

Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 2011
Dan O'Brien gives an excellent analysis of testimonial knowledge transmission in his article 'Communication Between Friends' (2009) noting that the reliability of the speaker is a concern in both externalist and internalist theories of knowledge. O'Brien focuses on the belief states of Hearers (H) in cases where the reliability of the Speaker (S) is ...
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CFP: “Theorizing Fan Fiction and Fan Communities.”

Science Fiction Studies, 2004
Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse
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“Carnival” on the Internet: Research on the Impact of Fan Community Stratification on Fan Economy

Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
This article uses the big data crawler technology to conduct keyword analyses and word cloud diagram drawings on more than 10,000 pieces of data from Weibo and other Internet platforms, and through a six-month short-term field trip and one-on-one interviews with key groups, the impact of different levels within fan communities on the fan economy is ...
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Dimensions of Sense of Membership in a Sport Fan Community: Factors, Outcomes, and Social Capital Implications

Communication and Sport, 2022
Brandon Mastromartino, Jerred Junqi Wang, James J Zhang   +2 more
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Identity and the Online Media Fan Community

2012
While new technology offers the promise of abstraction and automation, the Web offers an efficient, global method of communication between people, both as individuals and within and amongst groups. The recent prominence of the social web reflects and acknowledges an underlying facet of human nature – that humans like to interact and will use whatever ...
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Fan Community Management from Fan Culture in China

Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 2022
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Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online

Poetics, 2021
Vilde Schanke Sundet
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