Med himmelen som tak Ungdom, religion og fandom
Prismet, 2017 In this article the phenomenon “fandom” is discussed. Fandom signifies strong fan-cultures, similar to religious charismatic movements. Trough a brief introduction to fandom research I show how the field has changed from a negative view on fans, towards ...
Trine Anker
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Generations, migrations, and the future of fandom's private spaces
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 An exploration of old versus young fandom indicates that this divide is fueled by shifting norms encouraged by migration across online platforms, with changes that focus on conflicting norms around the publicness of fandom.
Brianna Dym, Casey Fiesler
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Lesbian Fandom Remakes the Boy Band
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Lesbians and other queer women are typically absent from theorizations of boy band fandom even though boy bands often have sizable lesbian fan bases. Lesbian fandom of the British–Irish boy band One Direction congregated primarily on Tumblr; this fandom ...
Jessica Pruett
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Love Me for a Reason: An Autoethnographic Account of Boyzone Fandom [PDF]
IASPM Journal, 2016 Fan scholars such as Matt Hills have argued that fannish interests can become relevant and irrelevant at different times during a fan’s life. Combining insights from popular music and fan studies, in this article we use an auto-ethnographic approach to ...
Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones
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Private enterprise: the country diary of an Edwardian lady and female fan communities : The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady and female fan communities [PDF]
, 2007 Edith Holden(1871-1920) is the naturalist celebrated for her bestselling Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (written 1906, published posthumously 1977).
Edwards, S.M.
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Postprint Copy of Years of Teaching Dangerously: Interfacing Thomas Cromwell in Canon and Fandom, Michael Drayton, “W.S.,” and Hilary Mantel [PDF]
, 2016 When Sir Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, he sought to keep “baggage books,” “riff-raff books,” and distasteful literature off the shelves. The question of keeping literature in or out of a library or canon is never simply about literature; it
Laurie Ringer
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Modern ‘live’ football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque [PDF]
, 2012 Drawing on Redhead's discussion of Baudrillard as a theorist of hyperreality, the paper considers the different ways in which the mediatized ‘live’ football spectacle is often modelled on the ‘live’ however eventually usurps the ‘live’ forms position in ...
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Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 For nearly three decades, the field of fan studies has helped to shift the conversation on fandom from a study of pathological individuals to exploring how groups make use of and transform the contemporary media landscape. Fandom itself is also changing.
Abby Waysdorf
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Discourse is the new wank: A reflection on linguistic change in fandom
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 A survey disseminated April 13–16, 2017, revealed statistically significant differences in the definitions of various slang terms found in old (LiveJournal-based) and new (Tumblr-based) fandom.
Lily Winterwood
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THE LANGUAGE OF PEACE AND WAR: UKRAINIAN FANDOM ON THE WAY TO SELF-IDENTIFICATION
Епістемологічні дослідження у філософії, соціальних і політичних наукахThe article discusses the peculiarities of the functioning of Ukrainian fantasy fandom as well as its transformations related to two main aspects: 1) from “the old” fandom to the new one and 2) from the ordinary forms of existence during the peaceful ...
Сергій Валерійович ЛЕГЕЗА
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