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The (Super)fan Economy
Affect and attention mining has resulted in a superfan economy and a paratext culture.
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Taylor Swift Has Come to Town
Are city-wide branded takeovers the future?
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Corporate Fiction is not Fan Fiction
The new culture industry and the fan service trap.
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From 'sold out' to outsold
When fans are corporate cheerleaders.
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Is opting out of stan culture possible?
Stan culture is more than toxic fandom, it’s a result of standard business practices.
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Anti-Fandom For Profit: Disco, 90210, and Dawson's Creek
Capitalizing on negative fan attachments as a business move.
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I Hate You, Please Stan Me
Fandom writer Monia Ali and Katherine in dialogue about toxic fandom
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The Spoilerphobic Era
Have we reached peak spoiler aversion?
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Against Hype Surfing
Which of the excellent/popular/interesting trifecta matters most?
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Antiviral (2012) and the future of human commodification
The experience economy and celebrity consumption.
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Simon Cowell's (reverse) Midas touch
How much of Cowell's starmaker image is a mirage?
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Plants here, plants there, plants everywhere
Industry plant: an imprecise term for a diffuse phenomenon.
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Fandom Exile
Fandom Exile
Investigating fan culture and contextualizing the rise of stans in our cultural ecosystem. With extra focus on corporate interference and the (d)evolution of fandom communities.
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