Fannish communities feel a sense of ownership over their media, but this feeling does not make them powerful in a sense. Like the poachers of old, fans operate from a position of cultural marginality and social weakness. Like other popular
Transformative works in an era of data fandoms
(…) emerging algorithmic culture in which the ongoing interaction between affect, fan subjectivity, and the algorithm continually shapes and reshapes everyday fan practice in terms of its sequence of actions, norms and ways of thought. Yin, Yiyi. “An Emergent Algorithmic