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Nicki Minaj’s international anti-vaccine fiasco reveals the life-and-death stakes at the heart of normalizing a culture of fandom tribalism.
Abba’s most devoted fans have helped them remain in the public consciousness. Sometimes, under difficult circumstances.
As Team GB prepares to send its youngest Summer Olympian ever to the Tokyo 2021 Games, fans need to remember what being a young athlete in the public eye takes
A professor who researches BTS is building a diverse archive of media and analysis about the pop icons.
Once, the way we viewed celebrities was framed by the legacy press and the entertainment industry. Now fans and social media are rewriting the script.
Researchers find that the most devoted fans take their team’s defeats personally and often blame losses on the refs or cheating. Sound familiar?
The return of actors like Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter sees them older and wiser. Fewer role revivals remind us of character growth related to womanhood.
Some comic fans have found a bright spot in virtual conventions in an otherwise bleak pandemic year. The sense of community matters more than a simplistic analysis about metrics or interactivity.
In a world where everyone is cancelled, is it time to start creating a context culture instead?
When fans place a bet, it motivates them to watch a sport and root for a team they might otherwise have little interest in.
Support for European soccer clubs is defining relationships between spouses.
Monsta X fans have been derided as boy-band dupes, but their protests against the treatment of superstar Wonho shows them rejecting the capitalist system that’s quick to cut people loose.
There’s a strand of radical feminist thought that claims porn causes misogyny. So four researchers decided to test this idea – and descended on a porn expo to study the beliefs of the male attendees.
K-pop fans are a global network of varied ages and nationalities, who have an active, creative and symbiotic relationship with their idols.
Fan culture is thriving in Westeros. Although HBO’s Game of Thrones has ended, fans will ensure that the show lives on (and changes) across multimedia platforms, long into the future.
Sport is a dominant thread in Australia’s cultural DNA. But it’s also divisive.
While often lumped with other European populist parties, Beppe Grillo’s M5S is a movement of activist fans mobilized by the messages of his “celebrity brand”.
The adult fans of My Little Pony are both a blessing and a curse for marketing the new movie.
A recent study might explain why there’s been such divergent, emotional responses to the NFL protests.
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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lakehead University
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Assistant Director of American Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, University of the West of England
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Associate Professor of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Utrecht University
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Professor of Media Cultures, University of Portsmouth
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in English Studies, University of Stirling
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Murdoch University
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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PhD researcher in the fields of Popular Culture and Postcolonialism, The University of Western Australia