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Introduction: SuperWhoLock Fandom: Fandoms Crossed
2016This introduction to Crossing Fandoms describes SuperWhoLock—a fan-created amalgam of the television series Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock—as a symbol of contemporary digital fandom. Fans have created SuperWhoLock from the characters and narratives of the three cult texts.
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Journal of Consumer Culture, 2018
Research in consumer culture focuses on the role of fans in creating social spaces or fandoms in contrast with larger society, where new cultural meanings and values are socially negotiated. Drawing on media and cultural studies, this article describes fandoms as a process rooted in the larger phenomenon of fanaticism and its interaction with the ...
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Research in consumer culture focuses on the role of fans in creating social spaces or fandoms in contrast with larger society, where new cultural meanings and values are socially negotiated. Drawing on media and cultural studies, this article describes fandoms as a process rooted in the larger phenomenon of fanaticism and its interaction with the ...
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Conclusion: SuperWhoLock Fandom: Cross Fandoms
2016This conclusion to Crossing Fandoms explores the SuperWhoLock crossover as a metaphor for heterogeneous fan cultures. The chapter examines fan antagonism and fan affect. The flattening of affect in the digital age seemingly negates the difference between fan groups, but SuperWhoLock reveals tensions at the heart of fan culture. SuperWhoLock presents an
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2021
Abstract Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into “nostalgia act” territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band’s breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance.
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Abstract Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into “nostalgia act” territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band’s breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance.
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Liquid fandom: neo-tribes and fandom in the context of liquid modernity
Soccer & Society, 2013This paper is a critique of the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Michel Maffesoli as it has been applied to the study of soccer/football fans. Liquid life is the name that Bauman gives to the experience of life within 'liquid modernity' - a form of modernity in which social frameworks and institutions experience a process of accelerating liquefaction ...
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The Representation of Fandom in SupernaturalThe Representation of Fandom in Supernatural
2019For over a decade now, Supernatural has been the longest running fantasy TV show on television non-stop. Its cult following has slowly but steadily risen, exploding this small horror show into stardom, with a major fanbase supporting it. My thesis will examine how Supernatural’s fandom is represented in the show, and how the rich dynamic between the ...
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“Let’s Go, Baby Forklift!”: Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China
Social Media and Society, 2021Crystal Lee, Jamie Wong, Di Wu
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