Penfriendships, Exchange Economies, and “FBs”: Take That Fans Networking before the Digital Revolution

Löbert, Anja

doi:10.1080/03007766.2014.975032

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“…Fans of 1990s band Take That globally circulated friendship books-decorative books logging information and bartering interests-for creative expression and to meet additional "penpals" (Löbert, 2015). Despite occurring before ubiquitous Internet usage, these motivations likely drive modern fan activities.…”

Section: Fan Activitiesmentioning

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"Story of My Life"

Julia Jameson

2021

SMC

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Despite the boyband’s years-long hiatus, fans of One Direction (1D) continued actively engaging in fan activities. An online survey, which gathered 2,831 total responses, sought to explore fans’ motivations for participating in early 2020, more than four years after the hiatus began. The top four activities fans had recently spent the most time participating in were the following: listening to 1D music, supporting members’ solo careers, reading 1D fan fiction, and rewatching videos of/about 1D. Across activities, fans often participated because of missing the band, to feel like the band was still together, to feel closer to the band, to remember other times, and because the band had made lifelong impacts.

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Section: Fan Activitiesmentioning

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"Story of My Life"

Julia Jameson

2021

SMC

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Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence

Chew

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This study has three research objectives. Its major theoretical objective is to theorize the political impact of fan networks in authoritarian contexts. It finds that these fan networks perform the counterhegemonic work of blocking the authoritarian state's preferred solution to ‘the dictator's popular cultural dilemma’. Its major empirical objective is to understand how anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comics) disseminated so successfully in China despite authoritarian deterrence. It offers an explanation based on fan networking and fan network resilience. Its secondary theoretical objective is to enrich the research on non-digital kinds of fan networks. Its dataset mainly consists of anime and manga publications and other primary sources such as fans’ memoirs and reports.

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Ultimate bias: Memorabilia, K-pop and fandom identities

Guerra¹,

Sousa²

2021

CCT

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Penfriendships, Exchange Economies, and “FBs”: Take That Fans Networking before the Digital Revolution

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

"Story of My Life"

"Story of My Life"

Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence

Ultimate bias: Memorabilia, K-pop and fandom identities

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