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The language of danmei forums

Like users of other Chinese websites, Jinjiang readers and authors share among themselves an unique „Web language” (Zhou 2000). They often use initials of pinyin spellings, Arabic numbers, emoticons, words from other languagesl or Chinese characters of similar pronouncitation to

Szabo Dorottya 30/10/202030/10/2020 No Comments Read more

Sharing knowledge about psychology and sexology in fandom

In fandom, participants can gather cultural capital either related or unrelated to the text the fandom is centred around. One, marked space of this cultural capital is psychology and sexology. (Fandom) has a high percentage of disabled participants, and is

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Resistant fan tactics in the Guardian fandom

In the case of Kirk/Spock fandom, fans’ effort to keep technology accessible and democratic is to resist the corporate control of mainstream media and the capitalist system. In the Chinese context, fans’ tactical manouvres and technological sharing are mainly out

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On fans reporting other fans to censors in China

However, the worst instance of censorship [of Chinese fanworks] is that of the ongoing third wave. This censorship campaign relies on a large-scale, omnipresent reporting system. Many reports come from informants inside the community, especially antifans of a certain genre

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On hierarchies in online danmei fan communities in China

Many scholars see the BL community as a queer space that has the potential to subvert existing expectations about gender or sexuality (Stanley 2008; Wood 2006) and the capitalist system itself (Donovan 2008). In the case of China, the BL

Nele Noppe 01/01/202001/01/2020 No Comments Read more

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