How Technology Has Transformed, And Complicated, Music Fandom: Interview With Nancy Baym Here’s a really interesting interview with Nancy Baym, who markets herself as an internet researcher these days but has a history of really interesting and groundbreaking work on
Unlike larger [K-pop] groups with official Japanese fan clubs, Shin-Okubo idol groups usually operate on a point card system. Attending each concert usually equals one point (though there are double point days), and purchasing certain merchandise (such as towels or
Shipping idols together is a common pastime in Asian idol fandom. The first episode of SNL Korea featured a skit recreating the events of a famous boy band fan fiction story. There’s international academic scholarship on idol femslash (Yang and
New fan studies research – August 1st, 2017
A weekly list of new/recent fan studies research that’s just been added to the Fan Studies Bibliography. Works are divided into things that are open access (=immediately readable for anyone) and not open access (=behind a paywall or not yet
I realised that I was spending all this time trying to think about how to engage women with technology, and I was ignoring the fact they already were. They were essentially already video editors, graphic designers, community managers. They were
Vidding is a form of grassroots filmmaking in which clips from television shows and movies are set to music. The result is called a vid or a songvid. Unlike professional MTV-style music videos, in which footage is created to promote
[QUOTE] From Protected: Beatles Fangirls: A History Posted on June 18, 2016 by popmitzvah http://ift.tt/1Y1oRnm
If Beatlemania quickly became synonymous with The Beatles as a star text, then so too did the powerful and self-determined performance of female desire. The Beatles fangirl did not so much experience a loss of control than she declared a
[QUOTE] From Galbraith and Karlin, Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture, p1
On 9 June 2011, news of nuclear contamination in earthquake-stricken Japan took a backseat to the AKB48 General Election in the mass media. The third election of its kind for the all-girl idol group formed in 2005, it was a
Seven new essays on transcultural fandom
Via @tea-and-liminality: “For anyone interested, there’s a new themed section on transcultural fandom up at the online journal Participations, with the following essays: Chin, Bertha & Lori Hitchcock Morimoto:‘Introduction’ Driessen, Simone:‘Larger than life: exploring the transcultural fan practices of the
Transformative Works and Cultures: Vol 17 (2014)
Transformative Works and Cultures: Vol 17 (2014) acafanmom: New issue posted today, and several essays/interviews/reviews that may be of interest to people here: Redefining gender swap fan fiction: A Sherlock case study – Ann McClellan Bull in a china shop: