Fan Communities
This is a place where fans can go for meetups, face-to-face gatherings, and celebrate shared interests
What is a fan convention?
This term is used when characters have the potential for romantic or sexual relations even though the original story-line does not entertain it
What is shipping?
This term describes the sense of belonging and shared identity experienced by members of a fan community
What is fandom?
This person is credited with creating the term fan studies and establishing it as a legitimate field
Who is Matt Hills?
This way to play has become very popular for big video game influencers to get people to donate to their favorite charities
What is a charity live stream?
This term is when fans reinterpret and repurpose texts to align with their own cultures and values
What is textual poaching?
This platform hosts vast collections of fan fiction stories across various fandoms
What is Archive of Our Own (AO3)?
This social media platform was created in 2011 and is the largest video game streaming platform
What is Twitch?
This person is responsible for the early work in the 1990's promote the idea of fan studies
Who is Henry Jenkins?
This fan-led movement campaigned for increased diversity and representation in media, particularly focusing on racial and gender diversity
What is the Racebending movement?
This platform allows users to create servers to talk about shared interests and brands can interact directly with their customers in their own communities
What is Discord?
This fan fiction originated from a vampire movie that was turned into a trilogy
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
This event, the largest being held in San Diego, brings together people of all different fandoms to see their favorite characters
What is Comic-Con?
The popularity for this space show helped give rise to fan studies
What is Star Trek?
This movement, originating from a popular space TV show fandom, advocated for diverse representation in media and popularized the phrase representation matters
What is the Star Trek letter writing campaign?
This activity has created a new way for fans to interact with gaming by watching professional athletes play their favorite games
What is Esports?
This film studio is known for threatening fans who would publish fan fiction about one of their biggest franchises
Who is LucasFilm?
This piece of memorabilia was an untouched copy of the original video game that sold for $2 million dollars in 2021
What is the Super Mario Bros?
Fans of this detective book are the first modern-day fandom
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This organization, started for Harry Potter fans, as a way to draw attention to the human rights violations in Sudan. The newly named organization has houses to help sort the issues and each house competes against each other for who can spread the most social change
What is Fandom Forward?
This theoretical framework, originating in sociology, examines how power dynamics shape interactions within fan communities and influence the production of fan content
What is cultural hegemony?
It is believed this percentage of fan fiction is written by women
What is 90%?
This theory, proposed by Jenkins, suggests that fan engagement with media texts is a form of resistance against dominant cultural norms and ideologies
What is oppositional reading?
This person introduced the concept of "affective economies" (emotional investments fans make in texts)
Who is Sarah Banet-Weiser
This famous fan activism campaign successfully pressured a major studio to change elements of a film to better align with fan expectations or demands
What is #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement?