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Second language vocabulary acquisition through fan fiction on the Archive of Our Own
No full textWith the widespread diffusion of the internet and online archives, fan fiction is increasingly consumed by fans who do not speak English as a first language. It is therefore relevant to argue that fan fiction, especially as found on the fan-run Archive of Our Own, may work as a space for second language vocabulary acquisition. The high motivation and extensive engagement with forms of reading of fans who read and write fan fiction helps with vocabulary acquisition
Creative production of Brazilian telenovela fans on Twitter
No full textAnalysis of content creation by fans on Twitter based on the narrative arcs of Lica and Samantha, characters in the Brazilian telenovela Young Hearts (Malhação: Viva a diferença) (TV Globo, 2017–18)
Celebrity news and cyberactivism in the #FreeBritney fandom movement
No full textPublic awareness of pop singer Britney Spears's conservatorship has increased as fans have created independent information networks using collaborative platforms. This organization has been able to address real-world civil issues through the deployment of transmedia content strategies from pop culture
Bullet chats in China: Bilibili, language, and interaction
No full textBullet chats have grown in popularity in East Asia since 2006, when the Japanese animation website Niconico originated overlaying flying texts on video displays and synchronizing them to the video timeline. This bullet chat function has now gained popularity on Bilibili, a popular Chinese video-sharing social media site with a focus on East Asian pop culture. Bilibili users mix Chinese with foreign languages to create a cyberpidgin vocabulary, adding visual language to express their feelings in a mode that reflects the social norms learned from other East Asian fandoms. Analysis of Bilibili bullet chats provides insight into how social media and online platforms influence user interactions from both linguistic and visual perspectives
Chinese celebrity fans during the Covid-19 pandemic
No full textConnected learning is a valuable tool that may be used in China to mitigate the stigma of fan activities, as a case study of Chinese celebrity fans' activities during the coronavirus outbreak in China illustrates
Fandom and pedagogy in a time of pandemic
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic caused a number of instructors to move to emergency remote teaching. In the process, many instructors worried about being able to replicate the instruction of their face-to-face courses. Instructors can use strategies used by fans to promote engagement with course material, build community, and deploy technology in ways that promote their learning goals and enhance learning in online courses
Ownership, authority, and the body: Does antifanfic sentiment reflect posthuman anxiety?
No full textThis essay examines three Japanese anime texts—Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Serial Experiments: Lain—in order to discover metaphors for female fan practices online. In each of the three texts, women overthrow corporate, governmental, or paternal control over the body and gain the right to copy or reproduce it by fundamentally altering those bodies. These gestures are expressions of posthuman anxiety and "terminal identity." In addition, they involve confrontation with an uncanny double in some way. But how can they provide models for cyborg and fan subjectivity in an era in which bodily and textual reproduction, especially among females, is such a hotly contested issue? And how is the antifanfic backlash related to the phenomenon of the uncanny
Pro-wrestling fandom and digital archives of wrestling event merchandise
No full textWorld Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has dominated the sports entertainment industry for nearly three decades. Its merchandise has become a part of wrestling history, with fans using social media to share images that document their attendance at live events and their engagement with wrestling-related artifacts, such as event merchandise. Social media platforms such as Instagram provide a digital repository where fans can document their experiences while interacting with other fans
Identity and narrative ownership in "Black Nerd" and "Wicket: A Parody Musical"
No full textWhile theatre and popular media alike tend to almost exclusively favor the white, heteronormative, male perspective, much of fandom culture has developed around geek fans' ability to read alternative, and often resistant, meanings into established texts, then transform them into performances that strive to correct the flaws and fill the gaps in the source text. Analysis of Dad's Garage Theatre Company's productions of Jon Carr's Black Nerd (2018) and Travis Sharp and Haddon Kime's Wicket: A Parody Musical (2017) as case studies reveals that geek theatre uses fandom techniques of resistant reading, rewriting, and performance to disrupt and restructure hegemonic narratives to foreground the experiences and perspectives of minorities whose stories frequently fall through the gaps of the established canon
"Carmilla" fandom as a lesbian community of feeling
No full textThe fandom of the contemporary lesbian web series, Carmilla (2014–16), is an affective community built on a set of inclusions and exclusions. Carmilla, a 121-episode web series shot in vlog format, follows the relationship between a human girl and a female vampire, and it has an active online lesbian fandom. Affective bonds are created between Carmilla fans through various kinds of online fan practices, and these flows of affect are influenced by the race and location of fans