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In The Context of Fan Culture and Virtual Influencer Concepts The First Digital Fan: Leothefan

Yeni Medya
Social media platforms, which have become carriers of new communication and expression forms in digital environments, influence communication in personal, cultural, and societal contexts.
Serkan Karatay
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En helt spesiell kjærlighet

Kulturella Perspektiv, 2009
The British artist Morrissey started his career in the early 1980s as the singer in the band The Smiths, and has since become a cult icon with a still growin fan base. This article looks at the icon from a fan point of view.
Guro Flinterud
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Fandom as Method: Decolonising Research on Social Media Communications Through Chinese Transnational Fandoms of a Japanese Olympic Figure Skater

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
This paper focuses on international sports personality in figure staking Yuzuru Hanyu, who plays for Japan, and his transnational fandoms in China, to examine the politicisation of his evolving fandom during and after his performance at the 2022 Beijing ...
Zhen Troy Chen, Jackie Cameron, Nancy Xiuzhi Liu   +2 more
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The Role of Celebrity Worship in the Eudaimonic Well-Being of ARMY Fandom/Fanbase Members in Indonesia

Philanthropy: Journal of Psychology
. Celebrity worship is a parasocial relationship with one or more celebrities driven by identity absorption and addiction to everything related to the celebrity.
Azzahra Salsabilla Brotokusumo, Idei Khurnia Swasti   +1 more
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Sherlockology and Galactica.tv: Fan sites as gifts or exploited labor?

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014
Current scholarship on fandom has been preoccupied with examining the changing relationship between media industry professionals and fans. Media producers, celebrities, and industry insiders are increasingly establishing contact with fans, bypassing ...
Bertha Chin
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Roundtable with Paul Booth, Melissa A. Click, and Suzanne Scott

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018
Roundtable with Paul Booth, Melissa A. Click, and Suzanne Scott. Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, eds. 2018. The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. New York: Routledge. Paul Booth, ed. 2018. A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies.
Louisa Ellen Stein
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YouTube and TikTok as Platforms for Learning about Others: The Case of Non-Chinese Travel Videos in Shanghai Disneyland

Online Media and Global Communication, 2022
Due to existing Disney fandom and the increased popularity of online travel documentation, there is an opportunity to study brand internationalization, online video culture, and fandom.
Soto-Vásquez Arthur D.
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Productive Fandom [PDF]

, 2018
To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the fandoms of Sherlock, Glee, Firefly, and other popular television-based franchises, the author ...
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Doing fandom, (mis)doing whiteness: Heteronormativity, racialization, and the discursive construction of fandom

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2011
The fans depicted in mainstream media representation are unrelentingly white in a way that constructs fandom—from Star Trek to baseball to Elvis—as the property of white bodies. Though whiteness is typically understood in contemporary American culture as
Mel Stanfill
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Fandom Philanthropy in the Social Media Era: The Role of Online Social Interactions, Group Identification, and Peer Influence in Collective Action

Emerging Media
The rise of virtual fan communities and the online social interactions (OSIs) of fans within these communities have contributed to significant advancements in fandom philanthropy in the social media era.
Wu Li, Yuehua Wu, Jiawen Wu
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