Power Production of"Fandom Circle"and Its Social Mechanism Representation
This paper focuses on analyzing how"fandom circle"has become a new problem domain for Internet research in China.It explores the overall logic of the generation,breaking,and requisition of"fandom circle"as a new problem domain,reveals its differences from traditional fans research,and explores its relationship with online groups,platform capital,and state power.In the digital age,the internal communication order within the"fandom circle"presents the new characteristics of re-centralization,re-institutionalization,and alienation of communication,and the"fandom circle"gradually forms a complex tension with other circles,platforms,society,and country in Internet communication,resulting in the spillover of online"fandom circle"communication behaviors and actions,thus making the"fandom circle"become the object of national governance in the digital era."Fandom circle"is a youth network organization created by the subtle withdrawal of state power and the joint efforts of various capital forces,and it is also one of the metaphors for"governance"in the digital age.
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