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List of contents
List of Illustrations - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Searching for Teenage Fans - Teenage Fans around One Direction and Harry Styles - Fans' Cultural Tools in the Harry Potter Universe - Fandom, Micro-Celebrities and New Media - Reinventing Images and Fan Discourses - Fans in a Multiplatform Society - Adolescent Boys as Fans in the Warhammer Community - Fans' Productive Communities around Fortnite - Conclusions: Adolescent Fans and Digital Lives - References - Index.
About the author
Pilar Lacasa is Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of Alcalá, Spain. She has been a visiting Research Professor in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT (USA), at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT (Melbourne, Australia), and at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. She is the author of Learning and Virtual Worlds (2013).
Summary
This book looks at social and cultural approaches to human development to study the identities and activities of fan communities among young people. It also demonstrates how digital technology has changed not only fan behavior, but also research practices used to understand what it means to be a young fan.
