Participatory culture wars : controversy, conflict, and complicity in fandom / edited by Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, and Benjamin Litherland.
| Other author | Driessen, Simone, 1987- editor. |
| Other author | Jones, Bethan (Writer on mass media), editor. |
| Other author | Litherland, Benjamin, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | JSTOR |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Controversy, conflict, and complicity in fandom |
| Series | Fandom & culture Fandom & culture. ^A1357628 |
| Contents | Introduction / Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, and Benjamin Litherland -- Against "toxic fandom" : fans, harassment, and the culture wars / Mel Stanfill -- I want to believe in better representation : conspiracy theories and (queer) fan communities / Christina Wurst -- Conspiracy as fandom : how the Quebecois conspiracist movement deals with "censorship" / Sklaerenn le Gallo and Michelle Stewart -- Misinformation fans : the role of fannish behaviors in the spread of anti-vaxxer discourse on Instagram / Renee Barnes -- "The soundtrack to my life, but I can no longer listen to it" : controversy and the cessation of one's fandom / Simone Driessen and Bethan Jones -- Masks of micro-celebrity and fandom : a semiotic study of Arab women's facial regimes / Zoe Hurley -- When Hogwarts isn't always there to welcome you home : mapping politics and practices in Harry Potter's transmedia tourism spaces / Rebecca Williams -- Kids are ruining comics! : generational conflict in Marvel comics and audiences / Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt -- #FreeBritney and the emergence of the foul-weather fan / Georgie Mills and Alfred Archer -- Cross-cyberspace, gender stereotypes, and conflicts in fan danmu and reaction videos of web series / Peng Qiao and Xing Fan -- Toxic controversies, the online imagining of "Blackwashing," and anti-fan victimhood / James Rendell. |
| Abstract | "From writing fanfiction to campaigning for better media representation, fandom and participatory culture have been seen as tools to resist dominant narratives and fight for a better future. But as Participatory Culture Wars demonstrates, this is not always the case. While the field of fan studies has made the argument for participatory cultures' redemptive qualities, communities can also coalesce around the regressive, the exclusionary and the misinformed. The chapters in this volume explore the myriad ways in which participatory culture can be used to very different ends, from the ways in which fans negotiate problematic texts and celebrities, like JK Rowling, to the overlaps between fandom conspiracies and political conspiracies, and the subtle support of socially progressive activist movements like Black Lives Matter in the Middle East. That examples are drawn from around the globe rather than simply Western politics and fandom expands the scholarship beyond fan studies while also highlighting the breadth of fannish engagement on a global scale. Participatory Culture Wars demonstrates how central fandoms have become to understanding pressing social, cultural and political issues. Fans, fandoms and fan practices are no longer the realm of media and popular culture; rather they have been adopted, co-opted and utilized across the contemporary political terrain. The chapters contained in Participatory Culture Wars offer examples of these and suggest approaches that can help fan studies scholars and beyond make sense of the constantly shifting interaction between fandom and politics. It takes seriously the potential ramifications of participatory culture as a mode of political engagement, which is particularly timely given the extent to which populism specifically, and political culture generally, increasingly mobilize affect to political ends."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2025). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Participatory culture wars Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2025 9781685970086 |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2024038873 |
| ISBN | 9781685970093 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1685970095 electronic book |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Stock number | 22573/cats28455447 JSTOR |
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