Fan studies literature has frequently been pervaded by the prevailing assumptions of what constitutes “fans” and their associated activities: fan art or fantext, cosplay, conjecture, activism – the things that fans supposedly do by definition –are those to which scholarly attention has most been pai...

Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli tutkia, onko suomalainen ramopunk-yhteisö fandom vai kultti. Yhdysvaltalaisella Ramones-yhtyeellä on ollut suuri vaikutus suomalaiseen underground-kulttuuriin. Vaikka yhtyeen alkuperäiset jäsenet ovatkin jo kuolleet, vaikutus näkyy yhä keikkalavoilla j...

The paper analyses the almost complete absence of Polish RPG designers from OneBookShelf’s community content programs for various tabletop RPG systems, proposing an explanation for this absence based on the development of the RPG fandom in Poland. A part of the argument is concerned with a relativel...

The paper analyses the almost complete absence of Polish RPG designers from OneBookShelf’s community content programs for various tabletop RPG systems, proposing an explanation for this absence based on the development of the RPG fandom in Poland. A part of the argument is concerned with a relativel...

The appearance of ARMY asa loyalfans is a response to what BTS has to offeras a K-Pop idols. Asidebeing a fan,theirconsumption behavior is inevitable. Along with the development of media technology and as a result of pop culture commodities, fanscreate its own meaning and culture as an active actor...

This project investigated fandom, a portion of the audience of a media text, like a TV show, that actively engages with the text by creating and sharing original content based upon it. This productive interaction with media texts creates artistic and intellectual content ranging from stories, to dis...

Among various fan sites dedicated to pop stars, GagaDaily is one prominent online collective that centers around Lady Gaga. This study is a piece of ethnographic research focused on two claims – GagaDaily constitutes a Community of Practice (Eckert, 2006) in an online setting, and the regular use of...

Eric Harris i Dylan Klebold są odpowiedzialni za jedną z największych masowych strzelanin szkolnych w USA, znanej jako masakra w Columbine High School. Wydarzenie to zaowocowało ogólnokrajową paniką moralną skupioną wokół reprezentacji przemocy w grach komputerowych, muzyce i filmie. Nastoletni mord...

There have been recent calls for further academic attention to the online activities of football fans. Despite the growing number of studies that have utilised online interactions between fans as a source of data, none have focused on computer mediated communication (CMC) between fans as the actual...

Within the discipline of community psychology there is debate as to the dimensions underlying the construct psychological sense of community (PSOC). One of the few theoretical discussions is that of McMillan and Chavis (1986), who hypothesized four dimensions: Belonging; Fulfillment of Needs; Influe...

This thesis uses ethnographic research into online media fandom, focusing on self-reflexive analytical documents that fans call meta, to investigate longstanding questions about the nature of virtual community. It argues that virtual documents should be seen as complete and complex interactions in t...

In this paper, I argue that we should turn our attention to the affective labor in the pop culture industry in South Korea. Using the House of BTS event as a case study of K- Pop fandom, I will address the affective labor practices and its impacts in K-Pop fandom. Idol group BTS (방탄소년단) and their co...

This study investigates the individual experience of viewing fan art and creative works within fandom, as well as the community’s potential to be a place for learning or to develop creative skills. I approach the fandom of Final Fantasy XIV, a massive multiplayer online game, on the online platform...

There is much debate in community psychology literature as to the dimensions underlying the construct psychological sense of community (PSOC). One of the few theoretical discussions is that of McMillan and Chavis (1986), who hypothesized four dimensions: Belonging; Fulfillment of Needs; Influence; a...

Online communities have existed since the internet became available, yet media and common thought suggest that they are fleeting and ephemeral, their friendships not real and their interests narrow. The online landscape that they exist in has been painted as in turn emancipating and anarchic. Howeve...

There is much debate in community psychology literature as to the dimensions underlying the construct psychological sense of community (PSOC). One of the few theoretical discussions is that of McMillan and Chavis (1986), who hypothesized four dimensions: Belonging; Fulfillment of Needs; Influence; a...

Media interaktywne oraz dostępność i łatwość użytkowania rozmaitych technologii medialnych w zasadniczy sposób zmieniły naturę zaangażowania użytkowników w odbiór ulubionych tekstów medialnych oraz doprowadziły do wyłonienia się całego zestawu kulturalnych praktyk związanych z tzw. fandomem, które n...

Social media have become intertwined in audiences’ television viewing, in how viewers experience texts and how broadcasters encourage and attract audiences with varying levels of interactivity and participation through ‘social television’ . Popular social media like Twitter are well established for...

Introducción. La era digital ofrece a los espectadores de ficción televisiva una variedad de espacios en los cuales revelar su propia identidad y las emociones generadas por los textos consumidos. Metodología. Se analizan 7.849 comentarios publicados por mujeres fans y community managers en 122 site...

Niniejsza praca przedstawia analizę wojen fandomowych w społeczności polskich słuchaczy K-popu na Twitterze. Przeprowadzone w tej grupie badania ankietowe miały za zadanie przybliżyć demografię społeczności oraz wyodrębnić największy problem według partycypujących. Ankieta udostępniona na Twitterze,...

When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishin...

Jednym z najciekawszych fenomenów zmediatyzowanej kultury ostatnich dziesięcioleci są medialne fandomy. Wzmacniają one i utrwalają model zaangażowanego odbioru i kreatywnej relacji do tekstu medialnego jako ważny i prestiżowy model odbioru kultury. Dlatego właśnie możliwość wykorzystania praktyk fan...

Fan fiction is a fiction based on situations and characters that have been created by someone else. It is written by fans who use original texts to create their own art and culture. Writing fan fiction is something that fans do together. They discuss original texts, share their views and opinions ab...

The BTS fandom is incredibly large with millions of digitally active fans. Participants, called ARMY, show a high level of commitment and involvement that has led to the fandom breaking engagement and performance records. The growth of individual identity among collective fandom, especially the impa...

The goal of the paper is to map the Czecho-Slovak community in the field of contemporary fan fiction inspired by the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling as a follow-up to the tradition of research into the Czecho-Slovak literary and culural relations. It is built on the conception of a „pec...