Reimagining the Imagined Community:

Morimoto, Lori; CHIN, BERTHA

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1pwtbq2.13

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“…Transcultural fandom scholars criticize fandom studies’ focus on English-speaking (usually White) fans of American or British media, and the sidelining of overseas fandom to fandom studies’ periphery (Morimoto, 2018). As other transcultural fandom scholars have noted, East Asian popular culture such as K-pop and anime illustrates a reversal of the usual center-periphery of fandom studies, wherein mostly White, English-speaking fans of Asian media occupy the transcultural periphery of a fandom (Chin et al, 2017; Morimoto and Chin, 2017). Digital Anglophone K-pop fandom presents the opportunity to study the unique insights a transcultural fandom can provide without language or distance barriers.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 97%

Fans as transcultural gatekeepers: The hierarchy of BTS’ Anglophone Reddit fandom and the digital East-West media flow

Lynch

2020

New Media & Society

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This article describes how fandom organization on visibly hierarchical social media platforms differs from rhizomatic social media platforms. It discusses how Reddit’s hierarchical structure controls the flow of information into digital Anglophone K-pop fandoms, shedding light on this aspect of the East-West transcultural flow. Through analysis of comments and interviews with eight moderators of the K-pop group BTS’ subreddit (/r/bangtan), I show that when certain fans are in a position of power over other fans, they become digital gatekeepers. I argue that by becoming gatekeepers, these fans gain unlimited social capital and use it to control the content seen by the rest of the /r/bangtan community, much like a traditional news gatekeeper. Doing so controls what BTS content /r/bangtan users will continue to interact with, perceive, and further spread along this East-West flow. It also demonstrates a user desire for expert curators to filter out “fake news” for them.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 97%

Fans as transcultural gatekeepers: The hierarchy of BTS’ Anglophone Reddit fandom and the digital East-West media flow

Lynch

2020

New Media & Society

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“…Outside of K‐pop, the study of fandoms as transcultural networked publics capable of initiating social change is not new (Chin and Morimoto 2013; Lopez 2016; Morimoto and Chin 2017). Although fan activities focus on idols and particular cultural productions or franchises, fandom is not devoid of relevance to the real world, as “fandom is always performed against a backdrop of real‐world events, constraints, and subjectivities” (Morimoto and Chin 2017:181).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our results prompt an investigation of digital activism vis-a-vis fandom, particularly across transcultural boundaries and considering the universality of anti-Asian racism and its corresponding countermovements. Accordingly, this study interrogates fandom's contributions to combating anti-Asian sentiment, builds on existing literature exploring the potential for fandoms to advocate for social justice (Brough and Shresthova 2012;Cho 2022;Gray, Sandvoss, and Harrington 2020;Lee et al 2022;Lopez 2016;McLaren and Jin 2020;Morimoto and Chin 2017), and argues that the transculturality of BTS, ARMY, and their affective ties represent an opportunity for accessible global discourse about anti-Asian racism.…”

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“We Are Bulletproof”: The Transcultural Power of Fandom in #StopAsianHate

Zhang,

Ong

2024

Sociological Inquiry

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Fears of COVID‐19, alongside existing anti‐Asian sentiment, resulted in 11,467 documented hate incidents against Asians/Asian Americans in the United States between March 2020 and March 2022, per the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center. In response, #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate were used on Twitter to increase public awareness. Considering anti‐Asian racism transcends geographic boundaries, we interrogate: how does engagement with these hashtags reflect the transculturality of responses to anti‐Asian racism in a digital environment? We analyzed 920,271 tweets between March 19, 2020, and May 31, 2022, containing either hashtag, defining a “spike” in engagement as any day with >5,000 tweets, and found that of 25 spikes, 11 immediately followed the 2021 Atlanta‐area shootings—however, another 12 spikes were related to South Korean megagroup BTS. We further compare the results of two topic modeling methods, LDA and NMF, to examine how the use of and engagement with these hashtags shift over time primarily due to BTS fans (“ARMY”). This work joins emerging scholarship on race, fandom, and activism through cultural production in order to advance our collective understanding of modern digital activism and racial politics. Overall, we interrogate fandom's contributions to combating anti‐Asian sentiment, build on existing literature exploring the potential for fandoms to advocate for social justice, and argue that the transculturality of BTS, ARMY, and their affective ties represent an opportunity for accessible global discourse about anti‐Asian racism.

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“…Over the past two decades, the rapid growth of individuals and communities of fans that support sports clubs from another country has also attracted widespread academic interest. The literature uses a number of terms to describe the supporters of a geographically distant club, whether in another city or a different country: satellite fans (Kerr, 2009;Kerr & Gladden, 2008); transcultural fans (Hitchcock Morimoto & Chin, 2017); electronic fans (Akindes, 2011); cosmopolitan fans (Petersen-Wagner, 2017b); and transnational fans (Hognestad, 2006), the term used in this article. One of the first to investigate this field of study was A.…”

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The 21st Century Globetrotters’ Fans: The Case of Israeli Transnational Football Supporters’ Communities Before and During the Pandemic

Levental

Laor

Galily

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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In the modern era of commercialized, mediated, and global football, there is a decline in the importance of the local aspect of sports fandom. Nowadays, through television broadcasts, the Internet, and especially social networks, a fan continuously follows elite football clubs from around the world, which provide an alternative to local clubs. This has created a growing trend of football fan communities known as “transnational fans”—fans of sports clubs from other countries. Contrary to traditional definitions of fandom, the transnational fans are not close to the home stadium and therefore do not take part in the ceremonial ritual of actively supporting the club from the stands. Because of this, they are not seen as part of the club’s traditional fans. This means that transnational fans are forced to redefine the image of the football fan and to place special emphasis on an active community and loyalty to the team as markers of devotion. Contributing to the study of the psychology of fandom, this article discusses the characteristics of those fans’ communities in Israel and seeks to present an analysis of the construction of their members’ social and personal identity. To this end, an anthropological approach was adopted, which involved attending community gatherings throughout an entire gaming season and also included a series of in-depth interviews with community members. The findings of the study illustrate two main premises: the use of personal and community resources for self-determination, and the community and its place in the modern fan typology. Each theme attempts to redefine the individual’s role in the social setting and present a dynamic image of football fandom as it will take shape in coming decades.

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Reimagining the Imagined Community:

Cited by 13 publications

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Fans as transcultural gatekeepers: The hierarchy of BTS’ Anglophone Reddit fandom and the digital East-West media flow

Fans as transcultural gatekeepers: The hierarchy of BTS’ Anglophone Reddit fandom and the digital East-West media flow

“We Are Bulletproof”: The Transcultural Power of Fandom in #StopAsianHate

The 21st Century Globetrotters’ Fans: The Case of Israeli Transnational Football Supporters’ Communities Before and During the Pandemic

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