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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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Fandom as religion: a social-scientific assessment
, 2021 My objective in this article is to outline both a conceptual and a methodological reframing of the ‘fandom as religion’ comparison from a social-scientific perspective. This comparison is familiar territory by now.
Elliott, Michael A.
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, 2023 Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan ...
Fathallah, Judith
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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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From Cinderella to i-woman: Web novels, fandom, and feminist politics in China
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2023 i-Woman is a new genre of female-oriented web novel that emerged in China after 2020. By intentionally reversing the Cinderella story pattern of the classic romance, the i-woman genre and its feminist fans challenge patriarchal discourse and explore a ...
Meihua Lu
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From Hoops to Hope: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Political Fandom on Twitter
International Journal of Communication, 2022 The study uses political discourse on Twitter as political texts to evidence how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political fandom is fueled by affective structures of power, resistance, gendered power dynamics, political ideologies, culture, hope, and ...
Nathian Shae Rodriguez, Nadia Goretti
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Gender trouble in digital football fandom
, 2018 I kapitlet studeras fankulturer på Internet ur ett genusperspektiv.The historical, economic, sociological, cultural, and psychological importance of football fandom has been explored and analyzed in research since the 1960s.
Radmann, Aage, +3 more
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2010 Sport fandom has received considerable attention from social scientists, yet few have considered it from an evolutionary perspective. To redress this gap, we develop the hypothesis that team sports exhibit characteristics that activate mechanisms which ...
Benjamin Winegard, Robert O. Deaner
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Supporting the Fans: Learning-disability, Football Fandom and Social Exclusion [PDF]
, 2013 In Britain, within the contemporary drive of using sport to tackle the isolation of socially excluded groups, association football (football) fandom has been implicated in many policy documents as a possible site for learning-disabled people to become ...
SOUTHBY, KRIS
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An immersion in fandom: a qualitative research on Vasco Rossi's fans
, 2022 openLa mia grande passione per la musica in particolare per quella di Vasco Rossi e il mio percorso didattico hanno ispirato il mio argomento di tesi e hanno enormemente facilitato la sua scelta, essa si focalizzerà sul fandom di Vasco Rossi.
TASSI, ANDREA
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