This paper draws on data from a study of a four-year-old child, Gareth, in his first year of
formal schooling in England. The aim of the study was to identify the nature of Gareth's …

Persona is a very mutable concept. Perhaps its mutability is no more prominently displayed
that in its intersection and integration into music and musical culture. In this opening essay …

This study examines the strategies of political impression management adopted by the
Weibo account Liyuan Fan Club from a source credibility perspective, investigating the …

Based on a qualitative content analysis of two sets of comments to posts about the
Netflix'series Grace and Frankie on Jane Fonda's Facebook page, the aim of this article is to …

Fans purposively creating information aiming specifically to inform the public positively
about a celebrity has become a significant practice within contemporary Chinese fan …

The synchronic patterns and outcomes of relationship building between fans and fan objects
have received much attention in fan studies. Instead of taking an overly presentist view, as …

The chapter offers a conceptual definition of parasocial relationships as a distinct construct,
and it explores its theoretical relationship to other related phenomena. It defines various …

This study explores the participation of pop music fandoms in fan base communities on
popular social networking sites within Indonesia's context, to not only engage with content …

Parasocial theory is not currently in favor within fan studies because it is seen as depicting
fan behavior as pathological. However, an examination of the original text and its modern …

How do musicians play and talk to audiences? Why do audiences listen and what happens
when they talk back? How do new (and old) technologies affect this interplay? This book …