Anime Fan Communities

Annett, Sandra

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“…An online fan community is a transcultural community where people from various countries, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds share their tastes [23]. The development of such communities is driven by information technologies (IT) through various forms of content, such as text, photos, GIFs, and videos, shared and transmitted to millions of fans, creating an environment that maximizes online interaction [24].…”

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Effects of Online Fan Community Interactions on Well-Being and Sense of Virtual Community

Kim,

Wang,

Kim

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Activities in the digital economy driven by information technology have rapidly increased in scope and speed in the aftermath of COVID-19. Meanwhile, social isolation accelerated by quarantine measures has increased concerns about individuals’ mental health. However, little is known about the specific consequences of online interactions, especially when applied in online fan community-based relationships. Therefore, we examined the impact of loneliness in the context of COVID-19 on online interaction with other fans and parasocial relationships with celebrities on the Weverse platform. We also examined how these interactions influence mental well-being and the sense of virtual community. With 202 valid data samples acquired from global BTS fandom, this study conducted a partial least squares–structural equation modeling analysis. The empirical results demonstrate a significant positive relationship between loneliness and the extent of online interaction, while no significant impact on parasocial relationships was observed. Both online interaction and parasocial relationships were found to enhance both well-being and SOVC. However, these results were observed to differ between Weverse paid subscribers and free users.

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Section: Fan Community Platformmentioning

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Effects of Online Fan Community Interactions on Well-Being and Sense of Virtual Community

Kim,

Wang,

Kim

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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“…The petition quickly collected 17,000 signatures; on 14 January, a video aired by the TV network MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Company) and reposted on YouTube showed National Assemblywoman Chŏng Migyŏng addressing the assembly to denounce Hetalia's slander of Korea. During the session, Chŏng demanded that the Minister of Foreign Affairs officially request KidsTV, the Japanese producer of the animated version, to cancel its broadcast (Annett 2014: 189, Miyake 2012.…”

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Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Sakamoto

Epstein

2020

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This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan-Korea relations.Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book's chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroots challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the "popular" are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely.Rumi Sakamoto is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, the University of Auckland, and is convenor of Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese and Korean programmes. She has published widely on Japanese popular culture, nationalism and war memory. She is a co-editor of Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Routledge, 2006) and Japanese Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014). Her current research looks at cultural representations of kamikaze pilots and self-defence forces in post-war Japan.

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Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom

Morimoto¹

2018

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies

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Anime Fan Communities

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Effects of Online Fan Community Interactions on Well-Being and Sense of Virtual Community

Effects of Online Fan Community Interactions on Well-Being and Sense of Virtual Community

Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations

Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom

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