Persuasive Essay On Fandom

The youth spend a majority of their time on the Internet or social media, rather than being active participants in their community. Studies of fan communities have increased over the past few years, as being a fan has become more digitized. There has been a focus on the Internet as a place of communal activity for participants. Fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, and so on, are generally a part of a larger “fandom” that is regarded collectively as a community or subculture. However, we are seeing the younger generations move towards new forms of civic and political engagement - ones that are closely tied to their personal interests and social network.

The Walking Dead consists of zombies, survival, and morals that are twisted into an awesome storyline that draws its audience into wanting more. If you were a true fan like me then you would know that, the Walking Dead was originally a comic book series that had several successful spin-offs. The T.V. series and the video game taken over the discourse community with its highly successful run of lately. In my research proposal, I will explain where I am doing my research, what I will be looking for, why they are appropriate research sites, what are my connections to my fandom, and hopefully teach you about unfamiliar questions you have on the Walking Dead. I will be examining the Walking Dead creativity, as a result of how they play on the fear and mind of the audience. This leads you to believe that fear is far from the possible truth.

One of the most charitable celebrities, Ellen Degeneres, is a prime example of this. Ellen is one of the most beloved comedians of the past 3 decades, and the success of her daily talk show has helped brand her into a pop culture icon. Ellen often brings people onto her show and gives them gifts, but most of the time she brings people in need who show acts of selflessness on her show and recognizes their efforts. For example, Ellen once reimbursed a waitress and single mother for paying for the meals of two service people, along with giving her a $10,000 check. Along with this, Ellen has been an active member of the LGBTQ community, being openly gay and speaking about her marriage to Portia De Rossi. Degeneres also supports 45 different charities, and has dedicated her celebrity to making the future bright for many

While only half of the hypotheses found statistical significance in the project, new questions are surfacing in regards as to how secretive fans view themselves and what being a “private” Brony means for them. Further research is needed to determine not only the political implications individuals face when disclosing their fan activities to others, but how fans delineate the terms “private” or “public” within the fandom since it appears that there is no definitive understanding. Looking at the quantitative data within the survey does illuminate facets of the fandom by providing a general picture of who a Brony is and some of their fan activities, however, those figures do not give a voice to the fans in the survey. In the following discussion

This case allows, then, to follow the social processes behind fandom constitution and to examine the dynamics of its development as a form of collective behaviour. Indeed, by stressing the key role of processes, this paper tries to make a contribution to the understanding of the constitution of fandom and its symbolic definitions, the formation of the fans' identity, the design of "traditions" as symbolic means of fandom, and the unfolding and constant updating of the notion of authenticity. Furthermore, the paper examines fandom as a "space", or "locale", produced and updated through the interactions among fans, particularly when they come from different backgrounds. Finally, since the paper deals with a fan owned club, it has to

The representations of ‘fans’ could potentially isolate them, however when sharing common interests, it could marginalise fans activities as beyond the mainstream. Science fiction fandom has allowed intelligent user criticism of published narratives, and fan conventions play a central role in the distribution of knowledge about new releases, promotion of comic books and science fiction novels. It allows fans to speak directly to the writers and producers and this allows a firmer sense of audience expectations. Conventions are not only for the promotion of new comics and science fictions, they also provide a market for commercially produced goods in relation to media stories and as a showcase for professional writers, illustrators, and performers. Not only this, they also provide fan-produced artwork and a showcase for fan artists.

Justin Bieber is a menace to the United States, and all evidence points to the truth of this. There are many points that could be made that state that Justin Bieber is the incarnation of pure evil. Justin was arrested in Miami for drag racing while under the influence and had an expired license. During that time, he also resisted arrest. He later then blocked off an entire street in a residential neighborhood so that he and his friend could drag race. Moreover, another extremely, but unsurprisingly stupid thing that Justin has done is piss in a bucket and flip off Bill Clinton. Furthermore, Bieber has also stated that “rape happens for a reason” without remorse. This is incredibly insensitive to rape victims. Additionally, he has also mentioned

Have you ever watched a movie that had such great storytelling that felt so real but wasn’t. Have you ever seen a movie that felt like the action was happening to you. Last have you ever saw a movie that looked so sad it felt like it was actually happening but wasn’t. Maybe a movie with great comedy it feels like the characters are speaking to you. Well then Harry Potter is the movie for you.

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The survey results shows us that 77.3% of the participants do not encourage celebrity worship in which most of them agree that something must be done to stop celebrity worship. However, I also noticed that even though some participants said that they do not encourage worship, a few of them said that they have a celebrity they worship. This tells us that despite them not encouraging celebrity worship, they still worship a celebrity. From this research, people can now understand why it is not good to worship celebrities and those who actually worship them would know more about it. The participants that do not encourage celebrity worship agreed with me that celebrity worship is unhealthy and can cause fans to become overly obsessed over their

Fandom is one of the defining concepts in the modern society. But what exactly makes it so important? The answer is fairly simple. Fans. „It is fans who identify and build an audience“(Branston and Stafford, 2006). The people, who, out of their own free will participate and create communities which are based around a certain artefact of their choosing. These communities then proceed to debate and often create their own content, which is subordinate to their chosen text, such as any fan work – fanfiction and fan art- or memes (Slade, Narro and Givens-Carroll, 2015).

To provide a picture of so-called passive or casual fans, I illustrated a fan huddled in her comforters while browsing fanworks. There are floating screenshots of the Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, and Fanfiction.Net homepages in the background, since these websites are three of the most visited fanwork archives.

Everyone is a fan of something, whether it is a band, a sports team, a television show, or a certain brand of shoe. There is something for everyone. Fan studies is the study of fans and their cultures, looking at how fans interact with each other, how they express themselves and “‘secondary texts’ produced by fans, such as fan fiction, art-work inspired by a particular cultural object or performer, and other forms of cultural production” (Gasher Skinner Lorimer, 137).

As I began exploring into the one direction fandom, I was a little doubtful on what I was getting myself into. I am the bystander, that sits and watches as the obsession of One Direction is blowing up all over my social media feed. The fans have a notorious reputation for being viewed on society to spend countless hours drooling over someone they’ll never have. My goal was to seek out the complexities of the peculiar phenomenon and how this obsession affects their lives. Adventures in my research led me to a new understanding on how a online obsession over a teen-boy band can affect the lives of many young girls. Being a part of the fandom online made me evident that my insight over the surrounding topic of girl’s obsession on band boys is incorrect. Through the online universe, people tend to have an emotional appeal that can be seen which allows us to further investigate in fictional aspects. As I explored into it further, it became evident that fans behave in a way to harness the love they all share for their idols. In order to understand, I put myself in different shoes to try and adapt to a lifestyle I was unfamiliar with. Fortunately for myself, my best friend Jessica was apart of this community and this allowed the adaptation to come much smoother. In the past, she would occasionally bring up One Direction, but due to my disinterest of them, she didn’t bring them up as much. When she found out that my research was going into this topic, she became extremely

As one can differentiate levels of political jurisdictions in the physical into groups like federal, state, and local domains, socio-political jurisdictions can be separated between differentiating online communities. Like the physical districts who have different agendas that reflect each differing sovereignty, online communities differ in political agendas, leanings, and goals in order to serve their community 's needs. There are many types of online communities based on individual’s interests or identity that allow for political discussions within their group. This includes fandoms. As one takes an anecdotal glance at the fragmented groups online, it is not hard to find fandom cultures around every corner. Fandoms can be described as “an extraordinary form of audiencing that includes everything from emotional attachment to performers to obsessive collecting” (Cavicchi, 2014). Since we entered the Internet age, fandom has seen a change. What was previously considered to be obsessive and abnormal has become an accepted common practice that is continually reinforced by niche marketing and new technologies. Whether fandom of sports, media artifacts, or celebrities, it is easy to lurk through each’s unique language, culture, and community. In one corner we find participants sharing Boromir memes, and we see fantasy football players debated about player stats. While commonly, fandom community in nature are designed to upheld a positive and fun conversation about the fandom