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The Extended Phenotype of Fandom through K-Pop Fandom Content

The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to understand the implications of K-Pop fandom content production in terms of Richard Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype. To this end, this study explored the factors that sustain the production of fandom content through in-depth interviews with fandom members.
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How do fandom types differ? A taxonomy of K-pop fandom with network embedding

Entertainment Computing
Soyeon Jin, Saerom Lee, Hakyeon Lee
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Documenting Deities: Touch and K-Pop Fandom on Youtube

2021
In this chapter, Eric Chalfant and Ali Na explore the role of touch in K-Pop fan videos on YouTube. The authors argue that K-pop fans use digital media to celebrate mediated distance from idols while advocating alternative forms of virtual intimacy.
Eric Chalfant, Ali Na
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Idolatry and Iconoclasm in K-Pop Fandom

2023
This chapter explores how the Egyptian singer Shaykh Imam became an “ordinary icon” whose critical compositions boldly challenged the Egyptian government’s hold on history. Following a brief overview of Imam’s life, the chapter examines how audiocassette technology fueled his career and provided a powerful means of circulation at a time when Egyptian ...
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There Will Be Blood: The Darker Side of K-Pop Fandom [PDF]

, 2014
In recent years "Hallyu", that is "the Korean Wave", has been sweeping across the globe. In this essay, the term will serve almost exclusively as the synonym to "Korean music". As every music genre, it has its own fandom, albeit divided in two: domestic and international.
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An exploratory study of ‘gifting’ in K-pop fandom

Institute for Euro-African Studies
This study explores the value of gifting activities in fandom, which are transnational in scope through digital networks, from a socio-cultural perspective. In recent years, the impact of K-pop fandom's voluntary gifting activities through global media platforms on the globalization of K-pop industries has been studied from the perspective of fandom ...
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Transnational fandom in the making: K-pop fans in Vancouver

International Communication Gazette, 2018
This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Vancouver, Canada, the study explores (1) how young fans encounter K-pop and negotiate its cultural distance, (2) how K-pop
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Polish K-Pop Fandom: Phenomenon, Structure & Communication

2018
The book was written for people who would like to learn more about Polish K-Pop fandom, but it can also be of help for those who are looking for some basic information about fan studies or K-Pop in general. It is not only meant to provide a set of basic information on Polish K-Pop fandom, but also to connect Polish and international fan studies, which ...
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Komunikasi Virtual Fandom K-Pop (Etnografi Virtual Komunitas Fandom Online:Discord Server CoppaMagz)

Jurnal Riset Komunikasi Terapan, 2023
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K-pop Fandom from Global Perspectives

2023
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