{"id":6017,"date":"2025-04-29T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:19:43","slug":"the-social-phenomenon-of-fandom-communities-built-on-a-shared-identity-and-camaraderie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6017\/the-social-phenomenon-of-fandom-communities-built-on-a-shared-identity-and-camaraderie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Phenomenon of Fandom: Communities built on a shared identity and Camaraderie"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nFandom or fandom culture is pretty broad in the online space and derives itself from a following of a source material. With some potentially being endorsed by the official source or acting independently from it. To an extent it affirms or shapes an individuals identity. Creating a safe community space for those to express themselves. This however presents the question on whether fandom communities influence growth in personal identity or hinder it in favour of a collective identity. <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6017\/the-social-phenomenon-of-fandom-communities-built-on-a-shared-identity-and-camaraderie\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Fandom or fandom culture is pretty broad in the online space and derives itself from a following of a source material. With some potentially being endorsed by the official source or acting independently from it. To an extent it affirms or shapes an individuals identity. Creating a safe community space for those to express themselves. This however presents the question on whether fandom communities influence growth in personal identity or hinder it in favour of a collective identity. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1303,1411,1304,1737,1310],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-communities","tag-fandom","tag-identity","tag-network","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","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\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}