{"id":5296,"date":"2025-04-24T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T05:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T05:12:58","slug":"friendship-bracelets-feedback-loops-and-fan-club-feuds-the-dual-nature-of-digital-fandom-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5296\/friendship-bracelets-feedback-loops-and-fan-club-feuds-the-dual-nature-of-digital-fandom-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Bracelets, Feedback Loops, and Fan-Club Feuds: The Dual Nature of Digital Fandom Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIntroduction:\n\n\n\nHumans are born with an innate need for connection, validation, and social belonging (Begen &amp; Turner-Cobb, 2015). Even before the term was coined, \u2018fandoms\u2019 have provided a direct answer to these needs as they offer an avenue to find community in social media, create connections based on shared interests, explore one's identity, and express oneself (Hutchins &amp; Tindall, 2016). The term fandom can be defined as a community of individuals who bond over common interests <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5296\/friendship-bracelets-feedback-loops-and-fan-club-feuds-the-dual-nature-of-digital-fandom-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Humans are born with an innate need for connection, validation, and social belonging (Begen &amp; Turner-Cobb, 2015). Even before the term was coined, \u2018fandoms\u2019 have provided a direct answer to these needs as they offer an avenue to find community in social media, create connections based on shared interests, explore one&#8217;s identity, and express oneself (Hutchins &amp; Tindall, 2016). The term fandom can be defined as a community of individuals who bond over common interests &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1417,1371,1330,1303,1419,1398,1416,1420,1411,1408,1418,1315,1410,1415,1414,1310,1412,1407,1289],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-algorithms","tag-cancel-culture","tag-case-study","tag-communities","tag-digital-fandom","tag-echo-chamber","tag-facebook","tag-fan","tag-fandom","tag-feedback-loops","tag-gatekeeping","tag-instagram","tag-networks","tag-perspective","tag-self-discover","tag-social-media","tag-swfities","tag-taylor-swift","tag-tiktok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}