Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online.
Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms …

ABSTRACT The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies remains the most
authoritative reference work for students and scholars interested in engaging with the …

The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history
within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from …

The global popularity of the Korean K-pop group BTS, backed by its devoted fanbase ARMY,
continues to raise questions surrounding transnational and transcultural flows of hybridized …

In an April 07, 2018, Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch, a group of friends are sitting around
a table, playing the popular board game Life (1960, Hasbro). The group is multicultural, with …

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 …

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as
a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value …

This chapter provides an overview of the growing interrelationship between media fandom
and audiovisual translation (AVT) practices, focusing on fansubbing, and extending the …

This article examines the visitor experience of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (WWOHP)
theme park at Universal Studios Orlando. The park is hugely popular and has been …

Politics for the Love of Fandom examines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”:
civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan …