Fandom

Bronies are a growing fandom that faces challenges by heteronormative conceptions of gender and must navigate how they will disclose to others, if at all. The harassment many fans encounter may not have any direct correlations with age or gender as the quantitative data suggests, but it does not dismiss the fact that a lot of fans experience harassment directly related to their association with the fandom or that many fans will never divulge that they are a Brony to anyone for fear of…

personality profile of celebrity worshippers suggest that people who score high on the CAS tend to show “poorer psychological well-being than non-worshippers” (Maltby, McCutcheon, Ashe, & Houran, 2001). The present study attempts to identify if Filipino Fandom members’ celebrity attitude is that of worship and if a relationship exists between celebrity attitude and mental health. Moreover, the researchers explored the possibility that the more you worship celebrities, the poorer your mental…

MET Gala before, I never truly realized how much dedication it takes for an individual to tune into a show week-to-week and live tweet their commentary. For this television challenge experience, I chose to delve deep into The CW’s Riverdale Twitter fandom and live tweet my immediate reactions as the show aired. For this experience, I live tweeted under the account @tvaddictperson. With my phone in my hands and television tuned into The CW in front of me, I became fully engaged in a second…

This level is largely online due to the large number of musical theater fans that use Tumblr and other online forums. A recent example of this is the fandom of Hamilton. Hamilton quickly became a pop culture phenomena in 2016, and with it grew a large fandom. The fandom has created fanfiction, art pieces, revisions of songs, among other works. These have, in turn, inspired many of the original artists and new artists to revise and evolve the original work.…

for its writing and direction and nominated for many highly-regarded awards such as BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Like many shows with prominent fandoms (E.g. Supernatural, Doctor Who), Sherlock was subject to a high production of fan activity based on the show and its iconic characters. The often homoerotic pairing of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the fandom is similar in fashion to the pairing of Kirk and Spock from Star Trek discussed in Jenkins’s article, which spurs an endless production…

The emergence of the Brony fandom and the messages love and tolerance emanating from the community is carving out this new type of masculinity. Concordant masculinity allows males to engage in traditionally feminine spaces and roles without reappropriating that space, a move often…

the low paying of jobs. But I think these professional athletes/ entertainers deserve the money. They deserve to earn large sums of money because they need well working equipment, they provide us with entertainment , and they have to deal with our fandom. For one, professional athletes/ entertainers they need well working equipment. One reason they need well working equipment if an entertainer was using something to make you laugh and it just fell apart or did not work the way it was supposed…

interactive online community were the fans would write, share, and exchange feedback about The Walking Dead. Studying The Walking Dead I cultivated a way to connect to the fandom community through literacy. When I started this class, I thought literacy was simple just reading and writing. However, this ethnography research on my fandom taught me that literacy events is not all the same when trying to learn literacy. It showed me that only you can control your thoughts on literacy. I found out…

Not editing on Wikipedia in months has been an astonishment. I have been turning my head to the Wikia Fandom where countless Wikias are created (James Bond, Wookiepedia, Literature Wikia, etc.). They are so much better off than Wikipedia and have more lenient policies than the strict Wikipedia ones which make it difficult for the common man to create a single article. In contrast to Wikipedia, it's so much easier for anyone to create an article as long as they stick to what a particular Wikia is…

Rhimes, is that very attraction sometimes addiction of many people throughout the country. With thirteen seasons under its wing, they keep the audience and fandom coming back every single week and even in the offseason, with sources like Hulu and Netflix. The romance, the suspense, and the medical drama are three things that the Grey’s Anatomy fandom, like myself, are attracted by every time the Cosy in the Rocket theme song comes on. The romance begins in the very first scene when…