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The privacy practices of transformative fandom are of interest to HCI researchers both for the community’s high proportion of queer members and for the community’s sophisticated privacy norms and behaviors. We investigated fans’ use of single-serving ...

Transformative media fandom is a remarkably coherent, long-lived, and diverse community united primarily by shared engagement in the varied activities of fandom. Its social norms are highly-developed and frequently debated, and have been studied by the ...

Social platforms possess great capabilities for supporting marginalized communities. However, they often become responsible for extending and amplifying similar hate and prejudice the communities face outside these spaces. We focus our research efforts ...

The current work explores emerging patterns of parasocial relationships with fictional characters within contemporary fandom communities. This article introduces terms used in fandoms to further explicate and expand on existing parasocial relationship ...

Social media platforms make trade-offs in their design and policy decisions to attract users and stand out from other platforms. These decisions are influenced by a number of considerations, e.g. what kinds of content moderation to deploy or what kinds ...

Online creative communities are increasingly a space for marginalized groups to build solidarity and engage in activist work, encouraging the exploration and articulation of intersectionally-marginalized identities through processes of creative ...

Investigators in fields such as journalism and law enforcement have long sought the public's help with investigations. New technologies have also allowed amateur sleuths to lead their own crowdsourced investigations - that have traditionally only been ...

Within online communities, social norms that both set expectations for and regulate behavior can be vital to the overall welfare of the community--particularly in the context of the privacy and safety of its members. For communities where the cost of ...

When online platforms rise and fall, sometimes communities fade away, and sometimes they pack their bags and relocate to a new home. To explore the causes and effects of online community migration, we examine transformative fandom, a longstanding, ...

Broadening participation in computing ensures that a diversity of perspectives are involved in creating new technologies. Yet despite initiatives aimed at bringing more diverse groups into computer science as a discipline, underrepresented groups are ...

Broadening participation in computing is essential for involving a diversity of perspectives in creating new technologies. Despite attempts to involve diverse groups in computer science, underrepresented groups such as women; racial, gender, and sexual ...

Within online communities, social norms that both set expectations for and regulate behavior can be critical to the overall welfare of the community--particularly in the context of the privacy and safety of its members. For communities where the cost of ...

Social norms as a regulatory mechanism often carry more weight than formal law--particularly in contexts when legal rules are gray. In online creative communities that focus on remix, community members must navigate copyright complexities regarding how ...

Online communities provide support for those who are vulnerable, such as LGBTQ people while coming out. Research shows that social support and personal narrative construction are important when recovering from personal crises and traumatic events. As an ...

As the K-pop industry has been rapidly expanded, the strength of the K-pop fandoms is under the spotlight. In particular, the collaborations among fandoms for mutually supporting their artists have contributed to the success of the K-pop artists. This ...

Communities focused on creating and sharing fanworks have existed since before the internet, but have thrived in the presence of online platforms. From young people learning literacy skills through writing fanfiction about their favorite media to ...

When social media platforms do not offer adequate privacy and safety features, users construct their own strategies for protecting private information and avoiding harassment. Women and LGBTQIA people are vulnerable targets if their privacy is violated, ...

In the Korean entertainment industry, there exists 'photaku'---a particular group of fans who take photos and videos of their favorite celebrities and distribute them online. To find out structures of their activities, we used a multi-method approach ...

The paper analyses all communications on the distribution blog of the web series SKAM/SHAME. More than 135 000 comments tell the story of a unique community of followers, fans, and friends communicating with each other and the series framed by a cross-...

This paper observes the identity construction in online social network, YouTube. The object of the research is computer-mediated communication of fandom in YouTube video commentaries. The data is analyzed by using Cyberpragmatics approach. The two main ...