Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life.

Clawson, Mary Ann; Harrington, C. Lee; Bielby, Denise D.

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“…Interaction with other fans helps construct shared meanings socially (Harrington & Bielby, 1995). Although traffic data have become an indicating and determining factor of a celebrity's commercial and cultural value (Q.…”

Section: Belief In the Power Of Data-makingmentioning

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Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

2023

Social Media + Society

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Enabled by social media, the data frenzy in the data-driven fandom culture in China has attracted widespread attention. Unlike most forms of data labor and fan activities, Chinese fans’ online data-making behavior ( zuoshuju) appears tedious, time- and money-consuming, and overwhelmingly irrational. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the sociopsychological motivation of fans’ online data-making behavior from a collective action perspective. Based on survey data from 588 respondents with fandom experiences online in China, this study (1) distinguished two types of online data-making (operational and monetary); (2) suggested that celebrity worship and civic engagement intention were antecedents of online data-making; and (3) found that fan communities facilitated by social media bridged the effects of sociopsychological factors and data-making behavior. This research introduced the collective action perspective and constructed a quantitative path model to test the underlying mechanism and impetus of fans’ data-making practices in China, adding quantitative support to the knowledge of the hybrid pattern of collective actions embedded in the datafication world. It contributes to the understanding of Chinese youth culture and civic engagement through social media.

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Section: Belief In the Power Of Data-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

2023

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“…A number of explanations for patterns of cultural taste employ the concept of meaning in that they focus on connections between symbols (Carley 1986a(Carley , 1986bStryker 1981). Examples include connections of meaning between the names chosen for children and gender identities or racial identities (Lieberson and Bell 1992), between style and messages of resistance (Hebdige 1979: 18), and between the general interests of individuals and the specific content of cultural forms such as soap operas, Star Trek serials, and game shows (Harrington and Bielby 1995). Meaning helps explain sociodemographic patterns of cultural taste because people are more receptive to new cultural tastes that have connections (of meaning) to cultural tastes, beliefs, values, interests, and identities that they already hold.…”

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Culture and Competition: Homophily and distancing Explanations for Cultural Niches

Mark

2003

Am Sociol Rev

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Why do different kinds of people like different kinds of culture? Two answers to this question are formally analyzed and empirically tested: the homophily model and the distancing model. Computer simulation demonstrates that these models are alternative explanations for the finding that different cultural tastes and practices are concentrated within different sociodemographic segments of society. Conflicting implications of the two models are identified. Although both models predict that cultural forms compete for people (i.e., people are a scarce resource on which cultural forms depend), the distancing model differs from the homophily model in that the distancing model predicts a dual ecology: Not only do cultural forms compete for people, but people compete for cultural forms. According to the distancing model, the larger the segment of society in which a cultural form is liked, the smaller is the proportion of people in that segment of society who like that cultural form. The homophily model predicts that people do not compete for cultural forms. Instead, it predicts a local bandwagon effect: The larger the segment of society in which a cultural form is liked, the larger is the proportion of people in that segment of society who like that cultural form. An empirical test using 1993 General Social Survey data supports the prediction of both models that cultural forms compete for people. The analysis also reveals a local bandwagon effect, yielding further empirical support for the homophily model and disconfirming the distancing model's prediction of a dual ecology.

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“…Fans practice several types of activities, including information seeking and sharing, collective reaction and interpretation, socialization, cultural production, promotion of the object of admiration, activism, and cultural mediation (Fiske, 1992;Jenkins, 1992Jenkins, , 2006Jenkins, , 2007Jenkins, , 2008Bacon-Smith, 1992;Jenkins and Tulloch, 1995;Harrington and Bielby, 1995;Baym, 1998Baym, , 2000Baym, , 2010Harrington et al, 1999;Duffett, 2000Duffett, , 2013Gray, 2003;Staiger, 2005;Gray et al, 2007;Lizie, 2009;Booth, 2010;Hein, 2011;Lee, 2011;Marwick and Boyd, 2011;Bourdaa, 2012Bourdaa, , 2016Bourdaa, , 2018Bourdaa, , 2020Jenkins et al, 2013;Bennett, 2014;Segré, 2014;Bury, 2017).…”

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Transnational soap operas and viewing practices in the digital age: The Greek fandom of Turkish dramas

Larochelle

2023

International Communication Gazette

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The viewing of Turkish soap operas in Greece is a stigmatized activity not only for reasons intrinsically related to the nature of soap operas per se, but also for reasons related to the historical past and the traditionally troubled diplomatic relationship between the two countries. Based on the data gathered during an audience ethnography, the author analyzes the use of Information and Communication Technologies made by the fans of these transnational soap operas. Online fan communities function as havens for their members as, in these communities, the norms which are dominant within the Greek society are not rigidly adhered to, stigmatized viewing preferences are endorsed by like-minded individuals and prevalent ideologies can be challenged without fear of criticism in a sympathetic, nonprejudiced environment.

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Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life.

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Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

Civic Engagement Intention and the Data-Driven Fan Community: Investigating the Motivation Behind Chinese Fans’ Online Data-Making Behavior From a Collective Action Perspective

Culture and Competition: Homophily and distancing Explanations for Cultural Niches

Transnational soap operas and viewing practices in the digital age: The Greek fandom of Turkish dramas

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