{"id":7813,"date":"2026-05-02T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:26:55","slug":"the-fans-of-the-gospels-the-fandom-of-the-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture-xvii\/7813\/the-fans-of-the-gospels-the-fandom-of-the-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fans of the Gospels &amp; The Fandom of The Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"\nNETS2004 A2 Conference Paper Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cHow do people form social connections and communities through social media?\u201d\n\n\n\nTopic: Fan Culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this video, I present my case that the fandom of The Chosen was formed as a community using three high-level social media affordances:\n\n\n\n\nFans as stakeholders\n\n\n\nFans as advocates\n\n\n\nFans as an affective public\n\n\n\n\nI do this using a (to my knowledge) novel approach of an Affordances Relationship Matrix, which makes use of the four categories <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture-xvii\/7813\/the-fans-of-the-gospels-the-fandom-of-the-chosen\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NETS2004 A2 Conference Paper Presentation \u201cHow do people form social connections and communities through social media?\u201d Topic: Fan Culture In this video, I present my case that the fandom of The Chosen was formed as a community using three high-level social media affordances: Fans as stakeholders Fans as advocates Fans as an affective public I do this using a (to my knowledge) novel approach of an Affordances Relationship Matrix, which makes use of the four categories &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2001,1842,1809,1788,1790,2002],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-culture-xvii","tag-affective-publics","tag-affordances","tag-community","tag-fan-culture","tag-fandom","tag-thechosen"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7814,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}