Fandom

However, what was truly frightening about this film is the acceptance, popularity and fandom that followed the acts of a criminal. One of the most recent examples of this alarming trend is the glorification of Tay K, a 17-year-old rapper wanted for capital murder. Since his arrest and the release of his story, his music has gained over 5…

Lion-Themed Gift Ideas for Lion Lovers Have you watched Disney's The Lion King a dozen times? Have you been to Singapore and taken a picture with its symbolic lion statue? If you have done even just one of the two, I can fairly guess that you admire lions! Lions are known as the king of the animal kingdom. They are strong and beautiful. They demonstrate nobility and confidence. They are like ninjas because they are masters of the stealth approach. They are really smart which is why they can…

A Netflix original series boasting only eight episodes. Four child actors huddled around a ten-hour Dungeons and Dragons game. A mother communicating with her lost son via Christmas lights. A budding romance between the smart, pretty girl and the resident weird kid. A supernatural young girl with an affinity for Eggo waffles. It does not sound like it should work, but it does. While this summer’s Ghostbusters revival became the new punchline to every science fiction joke, Stranger Things brought…

James Surowiecki, a staff writer for The New Yorker, once said “Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle” (Brainy Quotes). Ray Bradbury, who wrote the short story “The Veldt,” shares the same feelings as…

Leeja Carter is a faculty member at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in the sport and health psychology department of Temple University. Studies have shown that, when confronted by their favorite athlete's bad behavior, sports fans utilize a number of coping mechanisms to retain their admiration for the athlete. These mechanisms include ignoring or refusing to believe the news of the athlete's misconduct (denial), forgiving the behavior outright, or gradually forgetting the…

NASCAR has a demographic problem. The motor sport’s top-level Sprint Cup series holds the current title of having the oldest, most politically conservative and least diverse fans of the major professional sports leagues. It feels as though NASCAR has always been this way, as if a requirement of outlaw country culture is included in the team regulations. However, over the past decade NASCAR has suffered from a steady decline in television ratings, forcing the association to change in order to…

Some things that we as a group, learnt together in the process of doing this project were that marketing now a days are basically selling a lifestyle to teens and to every consumer they can get across to. The process that is done by marketing teens is that they study the average teen, they follow their everyday needs and wants. Most teens as of this point in their lives don 't have a steady income or source of financial aid other than their parents. The giants of advertising know this and they…

In this paper I will give a brief overview of a) the community which I will study as part of my coursework for ‘Digital Ethnography“, b) the reasons why I chose this particular community as object of study, c) the boundaries of my research project, and d) the types of qualitative evidence I will hopefully be able to collect. The Community The community I will study as part of my coursework is a group of German Lego fans of various ages who have made it their hobby not only to build, create,…

audiences because it can help the media frame things to suit audience gratifications. Another article that relates well with uses and gratification theory is the article from the week of November 18th, “Twitter as a technology for audiencing and fandom.” This article highlights how audiences use the social medium of Twitter to form a social connection. People use Twitter to communicate…

It is often forgotten that creators themselves remain a part of the fandom. To write for a character, they must understand everything about them and consider which parts they want to individualize. Nick Spencer has been a writer for Marvel since 2015. His current string of Captain America comics is unconventional, where the hero who is meant to be a “star-spangled symbol of morality, selflessness, and freedom, is now one of the Marvel universe’s most insidious villains” and working for an evil…