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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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Deep Diving into Cyberpunk 2077 Fandom: Fan Videos, Creative Affordances, and Social Inequality on YouTube – Nur Aliah Shaharudin
In this presentation, I discuss how fans of Cyberpunk 2077 uses YouTube as a platform to make deep-dives content about the game characters, how the game mirror’s the real world and capitalism. Script: script.docx
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From Viewers to Community: How The Sidemen Fans Build Connection Through YouTube and TikTok – Isabeau Taylor-Schacht
Today, I’ll be presenting my conference paper exploring the question: how do people form connections and communities through social media? To answer this, I analyse the fan community surrounding the Sidemen, focusing specifically on YouTube and TikTok. I’ll argue that social media affordances, such as commenting, algorithmic visibility, and participatory content creation, transform fans from…
Question 1: When I think back on my presentation, I see that one of its shortcomings was that I neglected…