A discussion on how social media platforms enable the formation of connections and communities through fandom by supporting interactivity through affordances, creating networked publics, and encouraging participatory practices like imitation and meme culture.
Your presentation really showed that fandom is much more than just simple social media interaction. Personally i liked how you built your presentation from affordances and turned it into ideas like meme culture, network public etc….I believe personally that the argument you made where clear and you showed how fandom can turn like the shared online activity into a stronger sense of community My questions where:
1. You talked about like network publics, personal publics and fandom publics throughout your presentation which of them do you think best explains how online fan interaction actually turns into like a real sense of community, and also why?
2. In your slides on memes and meme culture with like imitation. You showed how fans can connect through like remixing and repeating formats. Do you think that this kind of participation builds like a deeper belonging than actual direct discussion or is it a different form of connection
3. towards the end of your presentation, you argued that fandoms turn strangers into communities. How much of that shift do you think actually depends on the platform affordances like hashtags, algorithms etc…. and can those same features also limit who feels included?
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