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K-POP ON TWITTER: SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE AFFORDANCES AND THE FORMATION OF STAN- Peter Stroud
This presentation explores how K-pop fandom utilises various Twitter affordances including social and communicative affordances to form community and connections on Twitter. Using the concepts of Hashtag Hijacking, Stan, Communicative affordances, Social Affordances, Publics, Community and Fandom, the presentations argues that the K-pop fandom utilises Stans and hashtag hijacking to construct communities through active participation,…
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Participation as Labour: Social Media Affordances and the Formation of BTS ARMY — aksah mathew
This presentation explores how BTS’s fandom, ARMY, forms communities through social media platforms such as TikTok and X. Using concepts including platform affordances, participatory culture, fandom publics, and digital labour, the presentation argues that fan communities are built through active participation, shared visibility, and coordinated engagement, while also considering how fan practices can also act…
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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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How KPOP Fans Form Community Through Platform Affordances on X – Misha Ribaudo
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…