Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few
decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central …

The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance. At a time when streaming television
finds millions of viewers, video games garner billions of dollars, and social media grows …

Using a mixed methods approach, this research focuses on the association between
exposure to online LGBT-related content and direct contact with LGBT people. We found that …

Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and
cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and …

This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan
communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic …

This article examines cultures of anonymity (or 'nonnies') and secrecy in online slash
fandom through textual analysis of fannish reaction to gay magazine DNA publishing slash …

Abstract In her article" The Writing and Reading of Fan Fiction and Transformation Theory"
Veerle Van Steenhuyse discusses the experience of immersive reading fan fiction offers to …

The publishing success of EL James' Fifty Shades of Grey, a series with origins as Twilight
fan fiction, has energised popular interest in the practice of writing fan fiction (or 'fanfics') …

Who created the superhero genre? That's easy, Jerry Siegel in late 1934 was lying in bed
when he was hit with a flash of inspiration. He recalled:“I conceived of a character like …

I studied the relationship between parasocial interaction and social media, specifically
Facebook and Twitter. I chose Facebook and Twitter because they are two of the most …