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‘SwiftTok’, How Social Media Affordances on TikTok Shape the Swiftie Community
How social media, specifically TikTok, allows for the formation of connections and communities within fan culture, specifically within the Taylor Swift fandom. …
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Fandom Public and Community on Discord: The Chase Atlantic Fandom by Holly Andrews – 22309268
I argue that the Chase Atlantic discord server forms and maintains a fandom public and fosters community development through the platform’s social affordances enabled by server channels, server-member roles, and application programming interfaces. Key concepts: Social media platform affordances (Zulli & Zulli, 2022, p. 1874) Fandom Publics (Zhang, 2016, pp. 128-131) Communities (Bruns, 2023, p.…
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Tyler James (22224921), Reshaping Traditional Fandoms: How affordances have facilitated global football publics.
Football fandom public traditionally restricted international fandom due to its conservative, intranational fan culture. Through the affordances of X and YouTube, the English Premier League was able to create a global community, capable of international connections, community protesting and fan engagement.
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Reactivating Fan Communities: BigBang’s 2026 Comeback – Thi Phuong Thuy Mai
This video explores how BIGBANG’s 2026 comeback became more than a music return; It turned into a powerful fan culture moment on social media. Through concepts like affordances, participatory culture, and belonging, it shows how digital platforms helped fans reconnect, interact, and rebuild a shared community worldwide.
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One Piece-Macaellah Ritchie
This case study breaks down “How tiktok enables the formation of social connections and communities that contribute to the growth of the one piece anime fandom.
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Political expression and public engagement in online fandom spaces: Creating community within the ‘Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party’ Facebook page. (Brooke Nunn)
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“The Acceptance and Uniting My Hero Academia Anime Cosplay Community through Instagram, enabling social media global connectivity” – Myron Evan Anak Flynn
This video presentation analyze on My Hero Academia cosplay community facing the issue of marginalization on racism. Instagram as a chosen social media platform to study this issue to observe the behavior of users and identify content creators who does cosplaying that enables social interaction among the community. Furthermore, this video presentation discuss the social…
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…