Sökning: "Fan-studies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade ordet Fan-studies.

  1. 1. Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher.

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Sarah R. Kern; [2024-02-06]
    Nyckelord :Production reception; Hegemony; Discourse; Transmedia; Witcher; Fantasy; Polish Fantasy; Media literacy; Convergence culture; Fan-studies; Participation culture; Technical communication; Digital Role-Playing Games; Civic imagination; Netnography; ;

    Sammanfattning : This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay presents the background to the larger Witcher franchise, as well as standard debates and issues within the fantasy genre, the role-playing-game genre and convergence culture. LÄS MER

  2. 2. “I am the problem, it’s me” : A Netnographic Analysis of ‘Swiftie’ Prosumers on YouTube Shorts

    Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Írisz Beatrix Ősze; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Fan Studies; music fandom; online fan communities; Swifties U G; prosumption; interpretivism; Netnography; YouTube Shorts;

    Sammanfattning : The popularity of Taylor Swift has been growing rapidly on social media after the release of her ‘Midnights’ album on 21 October 2022. The lead single of the album, ‘Anti- Hero’ and the ‘Anti-Hero Challenge’ initiated by the singer inspired 17 thousand fans (Swifties) to share their own anti-heroic stories inspired by the song. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Female Fans in Formula 1 : A Qualitative Study of Spanish Female Fans’ Behaviours, Attitudes, and Motivations towards F1 and its Consumption through Twitter

    Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Anne Llamas Mayoral; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Formula 1; Twitter; Spain; female fans; participatory culture; fan community; postmodern feminism;

    Sammanfattning : Sports fandoms, historically, have been categorized as a male domain, even in academic studies. Therefore, as Formula 1 has been a sport with a remarkable increase in digital engagement and women are one of their main target audiences, I study Spanish F1 female fans’ behaviours, attitudes, and motivations towards F1 and Twitter as part of their fan experience. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Fan-Identität Erzählen : Shared stories innerhalb der Taylor-Swift-Fangemeinde: Ein small story approach

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk, finska, nederländska och tyska

    Författare :Juliane Rapp; [2021]
    Nyckelord :fan identity; small story paradigm; small stories; shared stories; references; fans; fandom; fan community; identity; performative identity; narrating identity; Taylor Swift; Swifties; social media; social networks; Twitter; Tumblr; nicknames; usernames; Emojis; narratives in interaction; positioning; membership categorization;

    Sammanfattning : Fans and fandoms are ever more salient aspects of our everyday lives offline and linked to the Internet's growing influence also online, particularly on social media. While fans have generally been pathologized via mass media but also early academic representations especially prior to the founding of the interdisciplinary Fan Studies in the 1970s/1980s, which sought to actively counter negative fan representations and foreground fans' creative productivity, nowadays, even though many types of fans have been 'mainstreamed' and are generally accepted, specific fan types are still systematically discriminated against - even within Fan Studies - along the lines of socio-demographic variables. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Bang Bang! I Shot You Down With A Straight Bullet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Sofie Lundblad; [2017]
    Nyckelord :fankultur; populärkultur; konvergens; deltagarkultur; fan engagemang; fan-aktivism; hbtq-representation; kvalitativ innehållsanalys;

    Sammanfattning : Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur fan-aktivistiska praktiker online kan skapa gemenskap bland fans och bidra till social förändring för hbtq-personer. Genom att använda kvalitativ innehållsanalys fördjupar jag mig i åtta artiklar som analyserar fansens engagemang, gemenskap och praktiker, relationen mellan producent och fans samt begreppet bury your gays. LÄS MER