In an increasingly mediated culture, social institutions such as science, public health, and
civic engagement exist within the same modes of discourse as popular media. As a human …

Aquest treball proposa una classificació sobre les tendències d'estudi que es troben en els
fan studies, o estudis sobre comunitats fan, en la disciplina de comunicació. Aquest camp …

The article explores the political viewpoints of Polish K-Pop fans that have been dragged
into political discourse in Poland and strongly associated with left-wing ideology. It …

As a relatively young field, which brings together scholars from a wide variety of different
home disciplines, fan studies faces questions of disciplinary cohesion and methodological …

This research explores the role of commodification in participation in celebrity-centric
fandom communities, applying a leisure studies framework to understand the constraints …

Pleasure (s) of people of marginalized genders and sexualities are central to media fandom
scholarship, making it suitable to analyze as an identitopia. Recently, the figure of the …

This thesis explores the intersections between fan studies, feminism, language, identity, and
belonging. To do this, I employed community-based research with the online language fan …

Interdisciplinarity involves the interaction, combination, and integration of theories, concepts,
and methods across different disciplines—and fan studies is commonly seen as an …

This essay argues that comics studies and fan studies can be seen to be connected via their
relationship to 'figures of the audience'(Barker 2018), chiefly figures of fandom. But where …

Theorizing manifests as a playful inquisitive attitude, mood, and way of being in the world. It
creates a “culture of discovery” around BTS'narrative content, as fans take part in intertextual …