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Fan Entitlement or Fan Empowerment? Fan Entitlement Discourse as Power Struggle in the Fan/Industry Relationship

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Recent decades have seen fan and “geek” culture become widely popular as the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories that used to be the preserve of a smaller subculture of die-hard fans conquered the box office, our televisions, and the best-seller lists. In that same time period, the Internet has...

Keyword:

fan entitlement, fandom, and fan culture

Subject:

Rhetoric and Communication

Creator:

Kaudel, Donna

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

01/21/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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The Reality of Fantasy Sports: Transforming Fan Culture in the Digital Age

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This dissertation analyzes the transformation of fantasy sports from a deviant, outside-the-mainstream fan culture to a billion-dollar industry that comprises almost 20 million North American participants. Fantasy sports are games in which participants adopt the simultaneous roles of owner, general manager, and coach of their own teams of real athletes...

Keyword:

sports, popular culture, audience studies, and fan culture

Subject:

Media, Technology and Society

Creator:

Ben Shields

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/06/2018

Date Modified:

09/06/2018

Date Created:

2008-04-22

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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