Brief Summary: This presentation delves into how disability is represented and interpreted in Harry Potter fanfiction as a case study of community formation. Focusing on the popular slash ship Drarry – the pairing between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy -, it explores how post-war fanfiction often depicts trauma and disability narratives on fanfiction platforms like…
How do people form communities on social media? This video uses the Harry Potter TikTok fandom as a case study, drawing on four theoretical frameworks (Boyd, Zhang, Gerbaudo, and Zulli & Zulli) to explain how platform affordances, algorithms, and participatory culture build fan communities online.
This presentation explores how social media has enabled an accelerated affinity between fans online. Using the Harry Potter and international K-Pop fandoms as case studies, the video analyses how social media affordances have made their intense, emotional connection possible through the removal of previously-existing barriers.
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…