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Esports buffs: the perceived role of fans and fandoms in U.S. collegiate programs. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Introduction Collegiate esports—organized competitive gaming—has expanded rapidly in the United States, drawing in student players, broadcasters, and support staff, as well as university employees.
Cote AC, Rahman MWU, Foxman M, Wilson A, Harris BC, Can O, Hansen JC.   +6 more
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Special issue on Chinese fandoms: Prosumers, communities, and identities

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2023
Editorial for "Chinese Fandoms," edited by Zhen Troy Chen and Celia Lam, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 41 (December 15, 2023).
Zhen Troy Chen, Celia Lam
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Survival and migration patterns of Chinese online media fandoms

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019
Chinese online media fandoms over the past two decades have been shaped and erased by natural website deaths and data loss, but also by governmental censorship, especially under the pressure of three major censorship campaigns that targeted pornographic ...
Xiqing Zheng
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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
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Atividades de fãs e fandoms na biblioteca escolar: mediações alinhadas aos programas e atividades das diretrizes da IFLA para a biblioteca escolar

Páginas a&b, 2020
The research problem consists on the following question: how to structure an information mediation activity to work with fan and fandoms activities in school libraries?
Everton da Silva Camillo , Bruna Daniele de Oliveira Silva   +1 more
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Fans of color, fandoms of color

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019
Editorial for guest-edited issue, "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 29 (March 15, 2019).
Abigail De Kosnik, andré carrington
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"Imagine a place:" Power and intimacy in fandoms on Discord

Transformative Works and Cultures
With over 300 million users, the voice, video, and text chat application Discord has been steadily emerging as a dominant site of fan communities and practices.
David Kocik, P. S. Berge, Camille Butera, Celeste Oon, Michael Senters   +4 more
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Racebending fandoms and digital futurism

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016
Online fan art can be a way for communities to celebrate a particular fandom, characters, or relationships; yet though these pieces have been studied for their ability to create community and express identity, one area that has yet to be fully explored ...
Elizabeth Gilliland
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‘There Are Some Daft People Out There!’: exploring female sport and media fandoms

Sport in Society, 2014
Female sports fans have been largely marginalized in academic research, but this article makes one contribution towards changing this relative invisibility. Drawing on a ‘grounded theory’ approach, 85 semi-structured interviews were conducted with female
Stacey Pope
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Stigma Media terhadap Fandom Perempuan dalam Pemberitaan Penggemar K-Pop

Jurnal Komunikasi, 2022
Stigma towards female fandoms is a form of gender discrimination caused by patriarchal culture domination. Such stigmas appear frequently in daily lives, including media.
Imamatul Silfia, Rizaludin Kurniawan
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