Advancing transcultural fandom

Chin, Bertha; Punathambekar, Aswin; Shresthova, Sangita

doi:10.4324/9781315637518-36

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“…Moreover, as the idol-nurturing simulation game market continues to grow, researchers with an interest in their position within media mix practices should turn their attention to the increasing literality of the ikusei tropes in newer idol-nurturing franchises such as Uma Musume ( Horse Girls ) (Cygames, 2021), centred around a game where players train girl/horse hybrids to win races and become star idols. Future scholarship should additionally consult players themselves of all backgrounds, including those playing in ‘transcultural’ contexts (Chin and Morimoto, 2013), to see what role those players envision themselves as taking on when they produce a simulated idol group within a game, and how that role may or may not conflict with their position as a fan/ otaku . For idol-nurturing games, like the music that fills them, are not only a matter of the player accepting or rejecting roles or conventions; the player as auteur is left using the ‘real’ world conventions they are familiar with to empower themselves within another.…”

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Idols you can make: The player as auteur in Japan’s media mix

Finan

2021

New Media & Society

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Japan has recently seen an upsurge in idol ikusei (nurturing) games: networked mobile games where one nurtures and produces an idol pop group. These games are a significant part of Japan’s contemporary ‘media mix’, influenced both by virtual pet games and by discourses of nurturing surrounding the production of ‘real’ girl idol groups by male producer-auteur figures. Previous analyses have considered affection for simulated or virtual girl idol figures as a detached longing for stylised characteristics ( moe). This article uses a case study of a mobile game at the centre of the Love Live! girl idol-nurturing simulation franchise to suggest that we cannot only speak of players’ affection for nurturing games’ characters in terms of postmodern disembodiment; we must also consider how in playing idol-nurturing games, players take the place of real male producer-auteur figures in Japanese popular music production, where discourses of gendered nurturing abound.

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Idols you can make: The player as auteur in Japan’s media mix

Finan

2021

New Media & Society

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“…El campo de los fandom studies trasciende el ámbito de los contenidos seriales. De este modo, se presentan distintas manifestaciones en otras áreas de investigación: música, arte o literatura (Chin & Morimoto, 2013;Duffett 2015;Wanzo, 2015;Williams & Bennett, 2022). Los análisis de las comunidades de fans se centran en la cultura participativa y promueven la reflexión académica sobre la industria audiovisual y su impacto en los aficionados.…”

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Implicación emocional y deseo aspiracional en el relato periodístico de The Newsroom (HBO). Análisis de la audiencia profesional en España

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Aranda

2023

RCom

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El presente artículo expone los resultados de una investigación realizada a los seguidores de la serie televisiva The Newsroom (HBO) en España. Para ello, se llevaron a cabo dos grupos de discusión (N=17) integrados por periodistas (con diversos roles en medios locales y nacionales) y por estudiantes de periodismo procedentes de diferentes universidades españolas. Los participantes fueron cuestionados acerca de sus experiencias, conocimientos y percepciones de la trama y los personajes de la ficción audiovisual. La interpretación de los datos se realizó a partir de cuatro niveles, que evaluaron la implicación emocional de menor a mayor grado: (1) transportación, (2) identificación, (3) interacción parasocial y (4) adoración (worship). La hipótesis principal abordó la relación entre los planteamientos éticos de The Newsroom y la implicación afectiva de los fans. Los resultados obtenidos ayudarán a entender el alto grado de identificación de los espectadores con el contenido mediático. La interiorización de valores éticos, la adopción del punto de vista del personaje y la reflexión sobre su misión informativa, a partir de la propuesta de la ficción, son aspectos significativos. Los seguidores demostraron una tendencia aspiracional a través de la empatía y el deseo de imitación de los personajes principales. Los razonamientos de los fans desvelaron interacciones parasociales y sus experiencias de transportación (inmersión en el relato) demostraron habilidades críticas, expresadas mediante contraargumentos.

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“…content worlds may perpetuate’. This is a task that should not just be left to non-White scholars (Chin et al, 2018: 304; Woo, 2018: 250, 251). To approach this issue, I consider one of the areas identified by Jenkins for future fandom studies – ‘moments of friction where fans clash over racial politics’ (Jenkins, 2014b: 98–9) – and I do so through a consideration of the racial politics of elves in the Tumblr-based fandom of the Dragon Age computer games.…”

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‘Elf Lives Matter’? The racial dynamics of participatory politics in a predominantly White fandom

Betz

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Declining rates of political participation in the West have led to increasing scholarly interest in the potential for participatory culture to re-engage marginalised citizens. Media fandom has, in particular, been hailed as a gateway to a new era of ‘participatory politics’. However, the implications of a politics founded on popular culture within a racially segmented media landscape is under-researched. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dragon Age fandom on Tumblr, this article analyses how the racial dynamics of a predominantly White fandom impact upon participatory politics, taking as a case study the analogy fans made between elves and real-world racial minority groups. It argues for the dangers of founding political action upon predominantly White content worlds, with non-White fans disproportionately burdened with the task of contesting implicit racial hegemonies. Without this work, however, there is the risk that a participatory politics based on White content worlds will perpetuate racial injustice.

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Advancing transcultural fandom

Cited by 12 publications

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Idols you can make: The player as auteur in Japan’s media mix

Idols you can make: The player as auteur in Japan’s media mix

Implicación emocional y deseo aspiracional en el relato periodístico de The Newsroom (HBO). Análisis de la audiencia profesional en España

‘Elf Lives Matter’? The racial dynamics of participatory politics in a predominantly White fandom

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