Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media

Gunderman, Hannah

doi:10.3983/twc.2020.1675

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“…For some time, fans have turned to the internet to find venues to interact with others interested in the same cultural objects (Baym, 1994;Fiesler & Dym, 2020). Like other social media spaces, subreddits serve as centers of community for fans of cultural products (Gunderman, 2020). Despite a history of research finding that fans create cultural meaning with the popular culture they consume (Fiesler et al, 2016;Jenkins, 1992), a contrasting conceptualization is that fans may be "ideal consumers [who] automatically buy the latest works" (Cavicchi, 1998, p. 62), and that fandom and consumerism are heavily intertwined (Hills, 2003;Stanfill, 2019).…”

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Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

Bergstrom

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2021

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We studied the Reddit communities for three game franchises at the time of a new release in each franchise to see what the members of the Reddit community for the now-older game would do in terms of their community involvement and membership. Specifically, we sought to determine if community members transitioned to the community for a new game, leaving behind their established community devoted to the now-older game. Our main finding was that most people did not move to the new community, but instead remained with their established community. We argue that nostalgia played an important role for community members, whom we frame as fans. Data came from Reddit communities for The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and the Civilization franchises, comprising data on over 10 million posts from five different year-long time periods, each centered on the release of a new game in each of those franchises.

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Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

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2021

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“…In this paper, we intend to discuss these approximations between politics and pop culture in the Global South (Martino & Marques, 2022) from theoretical contributions that help to understand the phenomenon of Social TV in Brazil (Canatta, 2019) and even Fan Cultures (Author et al, 2021;Gunderman, 2020;Bennet, 2012 and others) that emerged around this set of profiles on Twitter. So, we conducted an exploratory research based on a Boolean search with some terms found on Twitter during CPI's exhibition.…”

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Ideology and Affect in Political Polarization and Fandom Online

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Vieira

et al. 2023

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In recent years, scholarly attention has indicated the increased enmeshment of the political and entertainment media spheres, a change that has happened so gradually that it has not been as remarked upon as it should be. This is perhaps most observable in studies of community dynamics around both $2 and $2 . The backdrop of digital surveillance capitalism, and the specific platform affordances on which these communities exist and interact, exacerbates both. Furthermore, beyond these inverse scenarios whose distinctive boundaries grow blurrier by the day, there is a third domain in the overlap, of the exploitation – or compensation – of fans, fandoms, and fan labor for political and financial gain. This, too, exists in a reactive feedback loop with the always-on conditions of our contemporary digital political economy. As consequence, there are prominent recent streams of work explicating what exactly the fields of fan studies and political sociology can offer each other for researching communities online in such contexts. Responding to both the current landscape and recent exemplary and novel scholarship in the field, our panel presents four papers which each delve into an intersection of identity, community, and their ideological and affective ties. They investigate online affective community practices in reaction to fractured sociopolitical polarization, and contribute to the expanding picture of interdisciplinary frameworks and methodologies available — and increasingly, required — to comprehend the motivations, justifications, and trajectories of community dynamics under such drivers.

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“…(In this paper we are using the term “post” in a generic way, for any posting to the site, whereas Reddit delineates between “submissions” which are new, top-level posts, and “comments” which are replies to both submissions and other comments.) It also allows us to examine spaces where fans of particular cultural products communicate with other fans (Gunderman, 2020), providing an opportunity to observe how conversations and communities shift and change over time. Subreddits related to older games remain active, sometimes over a decade after a game’s initial release.…”

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“…Fans of one game in a franchise might play and become a fan of a new release in that franchise, or they might not. Although fans utilize different online spaces (and those spaces have changed over time—see Fiesler et al [2016]), many fans currently use Reddit to be part of fan-based communities and to discuss the objects of their fandom with fellow fans (Gunderman, 2020).…”

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Signaling the Intent to Change Online Communities: A Case From a Reddit Gaming Community

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2022

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This study builds on existing research about churn and community movement, examining if language use on Reddit can be used to determine if people signal their intent to relocate to a new community before they actually do so. Using a computational and semantic approach, we studied the subreddits for the game series Fallout at the time Fallout 76 ( FO76) was released to see if the users of the Fallout 4 ( FO4) subreddit signaled how they would react to the new subreddit. The main difference we found was that those who stay in the FO4 subreddit or use both subreddits on average post more often and create longer posts than those who move to the FO76 subreddit or leave. This adds further evidence to support theories about community as communication, and we suggest this finding can help online community managers identify which users may be about to leave the community, aiding retention and the overall health of the community.

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Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media

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Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

Ideology and Affect in Political Polarization and Fandom Online

Signaling the Intent to Change Online Communities: A Case From a Reddit Gaming Community

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