Up, up, and away! The power and potential of fan activism

Jenkins, Henry; Shresthova, Sangita

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“…In last three decades, the literature on media fandoms has evolved from the idea of fandoms as entities with their distinctive dimensions to the idea of fandoms as a process that dynamically interacts and co-evolves with society (Jenkins, 2014;Jenkins and Shresthova, 2012). More specifically, Duffett posits that, Scholars in this area may have been guilty of ''reifying'' their object: stopping the process of fandom and artificially trying to pin it down [.…”

Section: Fandom As a Processmentioning

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Fans, fandoms, or fanaticism?

Fuschillo

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Research in consumer culture focuses on the role of fans in creating social spaces or fandoms in contrast with larger society, where new cultural meanings and values are socially negotiated. Drawing on media and cultural studies, this article describes fandoms as a process rooted in the larger phenomenon of fanaticism and its interaction with the current society. The article posits the study of fanaticism as a fruitful lens for a deeper understanding of the role of consumption and brands in today’s consumer societies.

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“…Fandoms are an increasingly widespread social and cultural phenomenon infusing many facets of current society and its consumer culture (Gray et al, 2007;Hills, 2002;Jenkins and Shresthova, 2012). In the last three decades, fandoms have turned from a marginal phenomenon into a sizable movement influencing larger society (Jenkins, 2006b).…”

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Fans, fandoms, or fanaticism?

Fuschillo

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…Such work illuminates how groups promoting social change tap into the affective properties of popular culture and the playful and fantasy aspects of fandom can inform political discourse (Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen 2000;van Zoonen 2005;Jenkins and Shresthova 2012).…”

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The “ecology of participation”

Barnes

2013

Digital Journalism

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This paper investigates how audience members are using "alternative journalism" websites. Based on case studies of four "alternative journalism" sites, two based in Australia and two based in the United States, it examines how and why the audience uses these sites. Traditionally research into journalism and, in particular, "alternative journalism" has focused on the civic role of journalism. However, to consider the individual audience member's engagement with the site, an approach similar to that which has typically been associated with fan studies is more useful. Using this fan theory, the paper focuses on the role of personal satisfaction and emotional engagement, as central factors in participation on alternative journalism websites, which does not privilege participation that involves active contributions, but is inclusive of audience members who "internalise" their participation.

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“…They can leapfrog cumbersome bureaucracies and corrupt receiving governments to channel aid directly to the poor. Their charity advocacy promises a form of deterritorialized citizenship through transnational activism and global emotion, one that relies on a technologically well-informed use of new social media, direct advocacy campaigns and a fan base that rivals the populations of small countries (Bennett 2012;Jenkins and Shrethsova 2012).…”

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Celebrity humanitarianism, transnational emotion and the rise of neoliberal citizenship

Mitchell

2016

Global Networks

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Celebrity humanitarianism is a form of advocacy for the poor and ill, primarily those populations residing in developing regions of the world. Often the celebrities attempt to galvanize support and care for these distant populations through various kinds of emotional practices, which are promoted and sustained across space through the invocation of community and the use of new social media. The articulation of community, empathy and fan activism creates an experience of citizenship that appears to transcend national borders and enables affective relations between distant individuals and places. In this article, I analyse the mechanisms of emotion in the constitution of these deterritorialized networks, including the specific practices and pastoral language that draw individuals into feelings of transnational solidarity, through fan groups and fan-celebrity engagement. Further, I address the ways in which the emotional enrolment of individuals in this vein can be read as part of a larger process of neoliberal citizenship formation and depoliticization, in which subjects are subtly directed away from state-based responses to problems of poverty and ill health, and towards more individualized, enterprising, and market-mediated forms of social aid.

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Up, up, and away! The power and potential of fan activism

Abstract: Editorial for Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 10, special issue, "Transformative Works and Fan Activism."

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Fans, fandoms, or fanaticism?

Fans, fandoms, or fanaticism?

The “ecology of participation”

Celebrity humanitarianism, transnational emotion and the rise of neoliberal citizenship

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