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Parasocial diffusion: K-pop fandoms help drive COVID-19 public health messaging on social media [PDF]
Online Soc. Networks Media, 2021 We examine an unexpected but significant source of positive public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic -- K-pop fandoms. Leveraging more than 7 million tweets related to mask-wearing and K-pop between March 2020 and December 2021, we analyzed ...
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang +2 more
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Fandom versus citizenship: the “weirdisation” of politics
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five ...
Delia Chiaro, Nikita Lobanov
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Editorial for "Fandom Histories," edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby S. Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 37 (March 15, 2022).
Keidl, Philipp Dominik, Waysdorf, Abby
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Tic & Société, 2021 This article analyzes how fans’relationships with media texts but also with production teams can impact the fan community and encourage fans to act collectively.
Mélanie BOURDAA
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2023 Taking the 277 Movement as an example, I examine how recent Chinese fandoms have become familiar with political discussion by appropriating political issues.
Kexin Sun
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Dangai fandoms under crossfire: The making of queer love in a permeable and convergent media ecology
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2023 Dangai web series burgeoned in the People's Republic of China in the late 2010s and introduced mainstream audiences to a brand of semihomoerotic media culture.
Yidong Wang, Yilan Wang
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Cultural porters and banyun in Chinese fandoms on Bilibili
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2023 Banyun is the grassroots transnational media flow of foreign media content on Chinese platforms, particularly Bilibili. In this case study, we explore the role of the practitioners of banyun, the "cultural porters," in relation to other fans and the ...
Leiyuan Tian, Fan Liang
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FÃ-ATIVISMO E O ENGAJAMENTO DOS FANDOMS EM EVENTOS DE PROTESTOS
Cadernos Cajuína, 2023 Este artigo busca olhar para os fãs, pessoas apaixonadas por um artista ou produto midiático em comum, a partir do seu engajamento em causas sociais e políticas buscando compreender suas motivações e as ferramentas e possibilidades de mobilização em ...
Fillipe Alves
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“My baby should feel no wronged!”: Digital fandoms and emotional capitalism in China
Global Media and China, 2021 As the digitalization of fandom and the fandomization of digital platforms have both been discussed recently, this study intends to analyze how the logic of digital fandom was formalized in fans’ everyday media practices. Specifically, the study examines
Yiyi Yin
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Women in Online Science Fiction Fandoms: Psychological Well-Being
Journal of Counseling Research & Practice, 2022 A qualitative research design was used to listen to the experiences of women who engaged in science fiction fandom activities through online social media and how these experiences impacted their psychological well-being.
Chris Anderson +2 more
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