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Defending local culture through the global game in Southern China: Guangzhou Football Club fan culture

European Journal for Sport and Society, 2021
Chinese fans of domestic sports clubs have received scant scholarly attention. This study addresses this literature gap by exploring the fan culture associated with supporters of Guangzhou Football Club (Guangzhou FC).
C. Lee
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Euro 2012, the ‘civilizational leap’ and the ‘supporters United’ programme: a football mega-event and the evolution of fan culture in Poland

Soccer and Society, 2019
The objective of this article is to evaluate the social and cultural significance of the ‘Supporters United’ programme, an unprecedented initiative combining fan culture, institutional actors and local authorities.
R. Kossakowski
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Idols, Fans and Consumption: Cultural Industry and Fans Culture in the Internet Era

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, 2023
In the Internet era, fans, as a group with distinct personalities, have unique psychological mechanisms. At the same time, fans also greatly influence the Internet and even the whole society. This paper tries to sort out the characteristic psychological mechanism of fans and the influence of fans groups by analyzing the comments made by Weibo users ...
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Television, social media, and fan culture

Choice Reviews Online, 2016
Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures.
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Sports Fans and Fan Culture: A Critical Reflection on Fandom as Communicative Leisure in a Commodified World

International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 2021
K. Spracklen
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Crucifixions, Cosplay, and Participatory Fan Cultures

2020
This chapter analyzes the bodily self-mortification practices (e.g., flagellation, crucifixion) of some Christians in the Philippines during Holy Week by comparing and contrasting them with a range of practices centered around cosplay (especially “enacted cosplay”) performed by some members of participatory fan cultures in America.
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Fans and Fan Cultures

2017
Henrik Linden, Sara Linden
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Fan Community Management from Fan Culture in China

Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 2022
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Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture

2015
Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related ...
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Fan culture and motivation in the context of successful women’s professional team sports: a mixed-methods case study of Portland Thorns fandom

, 2018
A. Guest, Anne Luijten
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