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Black K-pop fan videos and polyculturalism

Popular Communication, 2017
The reaction video is an understudied area in YouTube and other online scholarship. Despite its limited scholarly attention, it is an influential site of meaning making, particularly for global you...
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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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Surfing the Korean Wave: K-pop Fan Practices in Vietnam

2023
This thesis explores Vietnamese K-pop fan practices in capitalising on, expressing, forming and transforming fan identity and community as they interact with the mainstream discourses of the Vietnamese mainstream media and the Korean Wave industry.
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The Impact of K-pop on Chinese Fan Culture

Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
The influence of K-pop as a global cultural phenomenon extends beyond just music and fashion - it also impacts social patterns in today’s society. This study seeks to delve into the unique characteristics of K-pop and how it shapes the lives of its fans.
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Motivation of K-POP Fans’ High Consumption Behavior

Communications in Humanities Research
In light of the growing global scope of K-pop, fan-generated, high-consumption is becoming an important culture and economic phenomenon. The qualitative study of this kind which uses non-patenting observation along with the content analysis tries to explore the motivations behind such behavior.
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Negotiating Fan Identities in K-Pop Music Culture

2016
Abstract In this paper I bring together interaction, media, deviance, self, and identity to make sense of how young Singaporeans consume Korean popular (hereafter, K-pop) music and culture. My overarching goal is to highlight that being a music fan is not a straightforward or even easy experience.
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K-pop Fan Perceptions and Negotiation of Alternative Forms of Masculinities

The Journal of Men’s Studies
The unexpected surge of K-pop and Korean pop culture, particularly in the United States, has sparked growing interest in fandom studies, which increasingly documents K-pop fans’ nuanced awareness and prospects for breaking down cultural barriers.
Dae Young Kim, Byunghwan Son
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Looking at Fan Identity: The Bangladeshi K-Pop Fan

2022
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Transcultural taste and neoliberal patriotic subject: A study of Chinese fans’ online talk of K-pop

Poetics, 2022
Yuan Gong
exaly  

“Female empowerment is being commercialized”: online reception of girl crush trend among feminist K-pop fans

Feminist Media Studies, 2023
Hyunmin Lee, Qingyue Sun
exaly