Participatory Culture Wars
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Participatory Culture Wars

Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom

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eBook - ePub

Participatory Culture Wars

Controversy, Conflict, and Complicity in Fandom

About this book

From writing fan fiction to campaigning for better media representation, fandom and participatory culture have long been seen as tools to resist dominant narratives and fight for a better future. But participatory culture is not always socially and politically progressive; rather, as Participatory Culture Wars demonstrates, it can be politically regressive and socially reactive. Communities coalesce around the exclusionary and the misinformed.
         Fans, fandoms, and fan practices are no longer the realm of media and popular culture; they have been adopted and co-opted across the contemporary political terrain. This volume offers specific examples and suggests approaches that can help make sense of the constantly shifting interaction between fandom and politics.

Contributors:
Alfred Archer, Renee Barnes, Simone Driessen, Xing Fan, Monica Flegel, Zoe Hurley, Bethan Jones, Sklaerenn Le Gallo, Judith Leggatt, Georgina Mills, Peng Qiao, James Rendell, Mel Stanfill, Michelle Stewart, Rebecca Williams, Christina Wurst

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Against “Toxic Fandom”: Fans, Harassment, and the Culture Wars
  9. 2. I Want to Believe in Better Representation: Conspiracy Theories and (Queer) Fan Communities
  10. 3. Conspiracy as Fandom: How the Quebecois Conspiracist Movement Deals with “Censorship”
  11. 4. Misinformation Fans: The Role of Fannish Behaviors in the Spread of Anti-Vaxxer Discourse on Instagram
  12. 5. “The Soundtrack to My Life, But I Can No Longer Listen to It”: Controversy and the Cessation of One’s Fandom
  13. 6. Masks of Micro-Celebrity and Fandom: A Semiotic Study of Arab Women’s Facial Regimes
  14. 7. When Hogwarts Isn’t Always There to Welcome You Home: Mapping Politics and Practices in Harry Potter’s Transmedia Tourism Spaces
  15. 8. Kids Are Ruining Comics! Generational Conflict in Marvel Comics and Audiences
  16. 9. #FreeBritney and the Emergence of the Foul-Weather Fan
  17. 10. Cross-Cyberspace, Gender Stereotypes, and Conflicts in Fan Danmu and Reaction Videos of Web Series
  18. 11. Toxic Controversies, the Online Imagining of “Blackwashing,” and Anti-Fan Victimhood
  19. Contributors
  20. Index
  21. Series List