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Recreating Fantasy: Fan culture in fan-made merchandise and advertising on Chinese social media [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
Fandom has long been recognized as a dynamic and participatory culture. In the context of Chinese social media Weibo, this study investigates the fan-made merchandise and advertising landscape within the pop culture fan community, and explores how fan ...
Zang Ruiyang
doaj   +1 more source

'Singing Songs, Making Places, Creating Selves:' Football Songs & Fan Identity at Sydney FC

open access: yes, 2009
The Australian A-League soccer competition was established in 2004. The creation of a new national soccer league precipitated many changes within Australia’s football culture.
Collinson, Ian
core   +1 more source

Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema.
Sexton, Jamie
core   +1 more source

From Fan Culture/Community to the Fan World: Possible Pathways and Ways of Having Done Fandom

open access: yes, 2017
In this article I revisit concepts of fan culture and community , which have been central to fan studies. Critiques of subcultural theory, along with fandom’s fragmentation into “traditional” fans and “brand fans,” have suggested that media fandom cannot
M. Hills
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fandom: The classroom of the future

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2015
What is the role of the fan scholar in the age of the fan-scholar? I explore fandom as the classroom of the future—that is, as a space and as a culture that may be one of the few places where people are encouraged to think critically, to write, and to ...
Paul J. Booth
doaj   +1 more source

"I'm Buffy, and you're history": Putting fan studies into history [editorial]

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2011
This essay kicks off the special historical issue of Transformative Works and Cultures by offering an overview of the ways in which fan communities have been studied by academic historians, and how fan studies has written the history of fan communities ...
Nancy Reagin, Anne Rubenstein
doaj   +1 more source

Green Milk: The Environmental Eatymologies of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2022
Recent scholarship in media studies has explored the physical experiences of popular culture such as theme parks and fan food. Although these studies emphasize the materiality of media, they have not adequately addressed the environmental implications ...
Jamie Uy
doaj   +1 more source

Payment in Credit: Copyright Law and Subcultural Creativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Copyright lawyers talk and write a lot about the uncertainties of fair use and the deterrent effects of a clearance culture on publishers, teachers, filmmakers, and the like, but know less about the choices people make about copyright on a daily basis ...
Tushnet, Rebecca
core   +2 more sources

Structural insights into lacto‐N‐biose I recognition by a family 32 carbohydrate‐binding module from Bifidobacterium bifidum

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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