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Twinship, incest, and twincest in the Harry Potter universe
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Among the large group of Harry Potter fans who write their own stories about the boy wizard, his friends, and his foes, and publish them on the Internet, some are interested in the exploration of the erotic and romantic bond between identical twins ...
Vera Cuntz-Leng
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Fans, community, and conflict in the pages of Picture Play, 1920–38
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Fan history remains a neglected subdiscipline of fan studies, in part because of the methodological complications in dealing with a community of fans who may be deceased.
Lies Lanckman
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Paralympic cultures: disability as paradigm [PDF]
, 2013 This is an article about the Paralympic Games of summer 2012 and the experience of watching them. It rehearses the use of disability as political and cultural identity in relation to theatre and performance studies. Disability identity is not an identity
Conroy, Colette
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From the edges to the center: Disability, Battlestar Galactica, and fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 As a fan of Battlestar Galactica, I was intrigued by the inclusion of disabled main characters, but disappointed by the show's resolution of their stories. Fan fiction, provided an alternate way to talk about these concerns, although many works fetishize
Sasha_feather
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Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciencesFan 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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Jump off the Bandwagon? Characterizing Bandwagon Fans’ Future Loyalty in Online NBA Fan Communities
2023 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking (ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom), 2023 Online user dynamics has been actively studied in recent years and bandwagon behavior is one of the most representative topics which can provide valuable insights for user identity change. Many previous studies have characterized bandwagon users and leveraged such characteristics to tackle practical problems such as community loyalty prediction ...
Wang, Yichen, Lv, Qin
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008 An interview with Henry Jenkins focussing on Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), and Jenkins' academic research into fan and participatory cultures.
TWC Editor
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Put on the Wig, It’s Time to Ball: Experiences of a Collegiate Men’s Basketball Fan Group [PDF]
, 2016 The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of a collegiate men’s basketball fan group. Little research has been undertaken exploring student fan groups, especially using ethnographic methods.
Musser, Allison, Peachey, Jon Welty
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Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext: the example of Pamela Aidan's Fitzwilliam darcy, gentleman [PDF]
, 2011 Building on recent findings in the field of fan fiction studies, I claim that Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman is indirectly influenced by three cultural phenomena which centre around Jane Austen and her work.
Van Steenhuyse, Veerle
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'First Principles': Hannibal, Affective Economy, and Oppositionality in Fan Studies [PDF]
, 2017 In the first episode of Hannibal (2013-15), FBI profiler Will Graham is called to examine a body impaled on antlers in the middle of a field – presumably the work of the so-called Minnesota Shrike.
Lori Morimoto
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