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Fans, fandoms, or fanaticism?

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2020
Research in consumer culture focuses on the role of fans in creating social spaces or fandoms in contrast with larger society, where new cultural meanings and values are socially negotiated. Drawing on media and cultural studies, this article describes fandoms as a process rooted in the larger phenomenon of fanaticism and its interaction with the ...
Gregorio Fuschillo
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Africa united: exploring the fandoms around the African Men’s Qatar 2022 World Cup teams among fans in Harare, Zimbabwe

Soccer and Society
Qatar 2022 World Cup provides a unique opportunity to explore how Zimbabwean football fans play out their ‘Africanness’ through supporting African teams.
M. Chiweshe
exaly   +2 more sources

Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms

Internet Histories, 2021
Queer transformative media fandoms have experienced multiple platform deaths due to “adult” content bans that remove queer content because it is considered “not safe for work” or pornographic. Such bans are biopolitically charged because they effectively
Diana Floegel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Introduction: global queer fandoms of Asian media and celebrities

Feminist Media Studies, 2021
In this introductory essay to the special issue “Global Queer Fandoms of Asian Media and Celebrities,” I reflect on key issues in existing scholarship and the fresh contributions and connections made by the commentary pieces.
Jamie J. Zhao
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Fan fashion of multiple fandoms: An exploration of female science-fiction and fantasy fans’ dress practices

The Journal of Fandom Studies, 2021
The purpose of this research was to explore the dress practices of females who wear fan fashion connected to multiple sci-fi/fantasy fandoms in a variety of everyday social contexts.
Dina Smith, C. Stannard, J. Kuttruff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Queer women’s fandoms: new global perspectives

Popular Communication
The past decade has witnessed an explosion of queer women’s fan communities worldwide. Yet there remains a paucity of research on queer women-centered fan cultures.
Jamie J. Zhao, Eve Ng
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A test of moderated serial mediation model of compulsive buying among Gen Z fandoms moderated by trash talking

Young Consumers
Purpose The study aims to identify the factors that influence young consumers’ compulsive buying, particularly Gen Z consumers who exhibit fandom qualities such as sharing the same interests and being willing to collaborate with others.
L. Suprawan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
In recent years, hostility towards Asian boys love (BL) media and fans in western English-speaking fandoms has been growing. This has manifested in anti-BL and anti-fujoshi anti-fans, many of whom express the general notion that queer western media is ...
Samantha Aburime
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From fandoms to heritage. Understanding fanfiction forums as Digital Heritage Communities

Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Should fanfiction forums be considered an instance of Digital Heritage Communities? Departing from the mainstream approach according to which Heritage Communities relate to intangible goods or material collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs),
F. Pilati   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cyberbullying in Fandom

Communications in Humanities Research, 2023
Young fans of C-POP/K-POP (Chinese pop/Korean pop) are a huge part of users of social media and part of diverse fandom that has not only a strong sense of belonging to a community, but there are also serious issues. This study aims to investigate the elements of psychological motivations of cyberbullying in toxic Fandom and the characteristic feature ...
Jingning Lin   +3 more
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