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How TikTok Sustains the One Direction Fandom – Phoebi Reeder
This conference paper uses the One Direction fandom, also known as “Directioners”, as a key case study in understanding how TikTok provides an engaging and constant environment for fans to still be active and connect with each other online.
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How Social Media is Changing Fandom Communities and Promoting Closer Connection – Savannah Raffan
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…