A STUDY BASED ON FANDOM AND FAN FICTION

  • Ankur Dev

Abstract

At least since the Beatle mania of the 1960s, fans have been characterized as extremelydevoted followers with an obsessive attachment to media stars or texts, the stress beingon the element of fanaticism in the term’s etymology.As the Internet rose to noticeable quality, in any case, fans came to be progressively celebrated. Fan societies thrived on the internet and numerous fans were self-educated early connectors. With the appearance of informal community destinations, most outstandingly Facebook, "fans" turned into a blessed vessel for organizations, ideological groups, and different associations recently conceptualized outside the space of mainstream society. Much the same as organizations progressively welcome their customers to "like them" on Facebook, Barack Obama's official mission made concentrated utilization of web-based media to mobilize and canalize uphold. In these assorted areas of society, fans have become dynamic customers, if not "presumes," spearheading the complex media real factors of (post)modern life through their being a fan. In fact a whole scholarly control has been set up, named "fan contemplates," given to contemplating the exercises and qualities of fans in everything about.

Published
2019-11-20
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Articles