Fandom

One final video drives the point of how gender and sex are ingrained in society when a young boy (roughly 10 years old) compares the fandom with gay subculture, illustrating how constructions of gender have been modeled for him. Bussey and Bandura suggest, “A great deal of gender-linked information is exemplified by models in one’s immediate environment such as parents and peers, and significant persons in social, educational, and occupational contexts.” His experiences with social…

Sports fandom is something that has grown largely as time has passed. Almost everyone has a favorite sports team or at least support a local team. Because of this, it is becoming very common in our everyday lives and we are becoming surrounded by it. This is similar to how religion is. Some psychologists are starting to find sports fandom are very similar to religion. They are similar in the vocabulary that each uses, they have the same psychological effects on humans, and almost everything in…

HKJ fandom and its symbolic definitions Studies on football fandom find that, in the case of engaged fans, team support is a significant, continuous and stable part of their identity (Ben Porat 2010). Football fandom is seen, by the fans themselves, as a lifetime practice, rooted in family traditions or local context. This feature of fandom is usually stressed to highlight its opposition to the commercialization and globalization of football (Giulanotti, 2004) Furthermore, fandom stability…

furry fandom,[12] by about a factor of 10 compared to the United States average self-identified rates of 1.8% bisexuality and 1.7% homosexuality.[34] According to four different surveys, 14–25% of the fandom members report homosexuality, 37–52% bisexuality, 28–51% heterosexuality, and 3–8% other forms of alternative sexual relationships.[9][11][35][36] Approximately half of the respondents reported being in a relationship, of which 76% were in a relationship with another member of furry…

Being in a fandom is a mentally and physically exhausting yet beautifully rewarding folk group to be a part of. There are an excess of fandoms that I can speak about being in like being a ‘Potterhead’ or a ‘Whovian’ or even better a ‘Trekkie’. However, the fandom that I take the largest part in and have the deepest love for is the Lord of the Rings fandom. I grew up with a mother who was a ‘Ringer’, as we are sometimes called, and that is what truly sparked my deep love of Lord of the Rings and…

This section of the fandom has the distinction of being recognized at almost all Brony conventions for their military service and their presence at these events alters people’s perceptions about Bronies. Similar to previous sections of this project, there are a number of service members who were not comfortable at first letting others know that they were watching My Little Pony. Molly Lambert describes one incident in which a number of military Bronies were afraid to openly admit their…

The Great Depression was a time of hardship for all Americans. Many laws were passed in both state and federal government. Due to the shortages of food and money, laws were passed that put government regulations on food and prices. This issue was brought up in the Supreme Court Case of Nebbia v. New York in 1934. The case of Nebbia v. New York started with the passage of emergency legislation by the state of New York during the Great Depression. Due to the shortage of milk and the shortage of…

The shocking nature of the fan account frames Frow’s concern with method in an understanding of dead celebrity, by engendering a sense of bewilderment of Elvis fandom. Much of the “cult” work on Elvis pathologizes fans. For example, Joyrich in her article “Elvisophilia: Knowledge, Pleasure, and the Cult of Elvis (1993),” argues fans avid desire to accumulate Elvis possessions amounts to a form of addiction. Such studies highlight the reductionism inherent in pathological accounts of fan action…

2.4 Corrections to Fandom-as-Religion Literature In his article, “Is Elvis a God?,” Frow questions whether we have a methodological approach to understand dead celebrity, particularly its religious dimensions. One of the more apt comments on the use of the religion analogy stems from Frow, “The religious relation exists midway between a dead metaphor and a theory which has yet to find itself” (1998, 200). Using relevant literature on Presley (Harrison 1992; Spiegel 1990; Vikan 1994; Rodman…

likeminded people of similar interests. The word ‘fandom’ originated from the mashing up of ‘fan’ and…