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Romance & Rivalry By Proxy
When vicarious experiences deliver the dollars.
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Monia Ali
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Verified Superfandom
What fan management platform Fave tells us about the fandom business.
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Monia Ali
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March 2024

The Tyranny of Stans
“Let people enjoy things” has become “make people afraid to dislike things.”
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Monia Ali
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The Livejournal Effect
A peek at an oft-ignored early 2000s incubator for online norms.
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Monia Ali
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February 2024

The Beatles cinematic universe
A selective jaunt through the cinematic fictions menus.
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Monia Ali
Activist fandom and the defanging of the anti-Scientology movement
When activists become fan objects and history becomes narrative, the cause becomes secondary.
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Monia Ali
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The fandoming of consumer markets
In the relationship renaissance era of marketing.
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Monia Ali
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December 2023

The perennial award circuit carousel.
Busines is business and business runs in the industry / "There are agendas upon agendas upon agendas in Academy voting just as there is in everything to…
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Monia Ali
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The fandom greenhouse
How "the medium" facilitates and fosters stan culture.
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Monia Ali
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November 2023

No, fandom was not invented by slash fans.
The current dominance of slash/queer content makes it easy to reframe the past: let's not.
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Monia Ali
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October 2023

The big business of stan culture
How old-school fandom lost out, and standom became the new profit doctrine
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Monia Ali
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The problem with fan studies
Are we entrenching stan culture instead of dissecting it?
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Monia Ali
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