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Fandoms and Social Media Harm Fledgling Artist Growth
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Scarlett Grimwood
Abstract Fandom communities can gain especially toxic qualities online, harboring hatred towards others, their media, and their own members. The social media platforms that these fandoms communicate using are algorithmically focused and designed to generated large quantities of content to power their “feeds”. Both of these can be detrimental to those involved, but especially artists.…
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Does community disruption consolidate an online community’s beliefs?
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dylanbradshaw
Abstract This paper argues that community disruption can consolidate an online community’s beliefs regardless if their beliefs are for the overall good of society or the contrary. The psychology of internet disruptors will be analysed as they have been given greater access to broader and more unique communities through the internet growing progressively over the…
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