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Religion and the Pathologization of Fandom: Religion, Reason and Controversy in My Little Pony fandom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Popular media and academic studies have often compared media fandom to a form of secularised religion, suggesting excessive and irrational involvement. Fans respond to this charge by emphasising rational elements of their fandom and the imagined worlds ...
Crome, Andrew, Crome, A
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Queer Temporalities of Queerbaiting

open access: yes, 2019
With an increasing number of queer characters on mainstream television and a heightened level of interaction between producers and fans within convergence culture, the interpretive strategies utilized by fans to navigate and identify instances of ...
Aguas E, EVANGELINE AGUAS
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Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sherlockology and Galactica.tv: Fan sites as gifts or exploited labor?

open access: yesTransformative 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
doaj   +1 more source

Affect in Fandom

open access: yes
This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis and design costumes.

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Universal Gripper for Industrial Manipulation With Enhanced Rigid Mechanics and Self‐Adaptable Fingers

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An enhanced universal gripper combining rigid mechanics with self‐adaptable fingers is presented for industrial automation. The novel six‐bar linkage with integrated compliant pad eliminates mechanical interference while enabling passive shape adaptation.
Muhammad Usman Khalid   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

open access: yes, 2018
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom] on [09/11/2017], available online: http://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Fandom/Click-Scott/p/book/9781138638921Three
Hellekson, Karen   +2 more
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Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heuristic political behavior in the 2024 presidential general election: Fandom humanies case study

open access: yesJurnal Inovasi Ilmu Sosial dan Politik
The K-Popers phenomenon in the elections in Indonesia in 2024 is the first record in the history of election contestation because it contains a combination of South Korean Pop culture and Indonesian Politics.
Dwi Husna
doaj   +1 more source

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