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Fans sind ein weit verbreitetes und vielfältiges Phänomen: Menschen sind Fans von Fußballvereinen, Musikern, Filmstars, Automarken, Buchfiguren und vielen anderen Dingen. Es gibt Fans in verschiedenen Altersgruppen und Schichten. Dieser Band legt erstmals eine umfassende Soziologie der Fans vor. Die hier versammelten Beiträge wenden soziologische Theorieperspektiven und empirische Instrumentarien auf Fans und Fantum an. Sie analysieren Fans hinsichtlich ihrer spezifischen Emotionalität, ihrer Kultur und Lebensführung, ihrer Sozialisation und Sozialstruktur, ihres Konsumverhaltens, ihrer Mediennutzung und ihrer politischen Partizipation. Thematisiert werden außerdem die internen Abgrenzungen in Fan-Szenen, Fragen der Migration und Globalisierung von Fans, Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Fan-Gemeinschaften sowie die Geschichte des Fantums. "Als erste grundlegende Publikation zeitgenössischer Fanforschung hat der von Jochen Roose, Mike S. Schäfer und Thomas Schmidt-Lux herausgegebene Sammelband das Zeug zum Standardwerk, das mit richtungsweisenden Ideen und Hypothesen zu weitergehender Forschung einlädt." PROMOTION PRODUCTS - Das Magazin für neue Werbeartikel, 2-2012 "Das Buch ist ein Kaleidoskop zahlreicher Aspekte zeitgenössischer Fan-Forschung. Jeder Beitrag ist erfreulicherweise 'unabgeschlossen' und lädt mit wegweisenden Ideen und Hypothesen zu weitergehender Forschung ein. Von diesem Buch muss man wirklich sagen, dass es den 'state of the art' eindrucksvoll repräsentiert." www.socialnet.de, 23.08.2010 "[...] trotz seiner soziologischen Fachsprache verdaulichen und jedenfalls enorm anregenden Sammelband 'Fans' [...]" Leipziger Volkszeitung, 05./06.06.2010.

Sociology. --- Communication. --- Sociology, general. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Media Research. --- fandom

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This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed, also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors, this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as those interested in metal communities around the world.

Heavy metal (Music) --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Music and society --- Death metal --- Doom metal --- Fandom --- Grindcore --- Heavy Metal --- Metal --- Metal Studies --- Musicology --- Popular Music --- Progressive metal --- Research --- Subculture

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To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the fandoms of Sherlock, Glee, Firefly, and other popular television-based franchises, the author appeals to fans and scholars alike in her empirically grounded methodology and insightful analysis of production hierarchies, gender, sexuality, play, and affect.

Television viewers --- Television programs --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Audiences, Television --- Television audiences --- Television fans --- Television watchers --- Viewers, Television --- Mass media --- Social aspects. --- Audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Fandom --- inter/transmediality --- media ethnography --- affect --- subcultures

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"The Power of Sports" explores the topic of sports in American culture"--

Sports in popular culture --- Sports --- Mass media and sports --- Sociological aspects. --- United States. --- Black Lives Matter. --- commercialism. --- commercialization. --- cultural fragmentation. --- digital technologies. --- economic inequality. --- female journalists. --- gender and sports. --- ideology. --- information gatekeepers. --- masculinity. --- meritocracy. --- militarism. --- opinion content. --- ownership. --- patriotism. --- product placement. --- production study. --- religion and sports. --- sports advertising. --- sports and politics. --- sports celebrity. --- sports community. --- sports economics. --- sports fandom. --- sports journalism. --- Émile Durkheim.

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"Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something more intimate. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Nancy K. Baym reveals how new media has facilitated connections through the active participation of both the artists and their devoted digital fan base. Before the rise of online sharing and user-generated content, audiences were mostly seen as undifferentiated masses, often mediated through record labels and the press. Today, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving them a new sense of intimacy, while offering artists unparalleled access to and information about their audiences. But this comes at a price. For audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique. And for artists, maintaining active relationships with so many people can be labor intensive and emotionally draining. Drawing on her own rich history as a deeply connected music fan, Baym offers an entirely new approach to media culture, arguing that the work musicians put into maintaining these intimate relationships reflects the demands of the gig economy, one which requires resources and strategies that we all music come to recognize"--Publisher's description.

Popular music fans. --- Music --- Popular music --- Performance --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- concert hall. --- digital communication. --- digital fan base. --- fandom. --- itunes. --- media culture. --- music audiences. --- music ethnography. --- music fans. --- music landscape. --- music platforms. --- music research. --- music streaming. --- music technology. --- music websites. --- online music. --- online streaming. --- personal connections. --- social media and music. --- MUSIC --- Instruction & Study --- Theory.