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- Focuses upon the role of social media in fan culture
- Encompasses a range of fan culture
- Relates an overview of fan culture to the wider economy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Exploring the ambiguous relationship between fandom and consumer culture, this book provides a critical overview of fans, fan cultures and fan experiences in relation to the broader experience and transformation economy. Fans and Fan Cultures discusses key theoretical concepts concerning celebrity, fandoms, subculture, consumerism and marketing through a range of examples in film, travel and tourism, football and music. With an emphasis on social media, and how various online platforms are utilised by brands, artists and fans, the authors explore how this type of communication often contributes to trivialising authentic expressions of cultural and social values and identities.
Reviews
“Linden and Linden offer a well-organized and executed analysis of what it means to be a fan in a world driven by the dissolution of transnational and transcultural borders, a neoliberal market in which everything—especially fan labor—can be capitalized upon, and an anxiety-fueled experience economy.” (Alexandra Fong, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Issue 13, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
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London Metropolitan University , London, United Kingdom
Henrik Linden, Sara Linden
About the authors
Henrik Linden is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries Management at the University of East London, UK, where he is Programme Leader for the BA in Tourism Management.
Sara Linden is Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Tourism at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fans and Fan Cultures
Book Subtitle: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media
Authors: Henrik Linden, Sara Linden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50129-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50127-1Published: 19 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69902-5Published: 06 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50129-5Published: 20 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 234
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tourism Management, Marketing, Sociology of Culture