An event or moment · 2001 · Fandom
Transnational fandom
Fans organising across national borders around media, with a shared calendar of releases and a shared language.
Fandom became infrastructure. When a release date is a global event and the discourse is synchronised across time zones, the parasocial bond stops being a private thing and becomes a public holiday.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Manipulation. One-sided attachment engineered for somebody else's benefit. Paid intimacy, parasocial persuasion, sasaeng, grief extraction, the streak. The lane that pays the bills and the lane that causes the most harm, frequently at the same time.
Same story, 2 other entries
The character is not the person2005 → Fandom wars2012
Where it sits
2000 2000-2009 · 2001 2009
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- unverifiedThe canonical account of fandom as crossing borders and refusing to stay in its box: Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006), and the scholarship that followed on K-pop, anime and football travelling further than the industry intendedJenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
INSTITUTION The fandom as institution
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