Mediatized Fan Play av Line Nybro Petersen

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<P>Addressing fans'' digital practices, this book places fans'' play at the centre of a networked mainstream culture that seems to increasingly cater to, amalgamate with and adapt to fans'' mediatized play. </P><P></P><P>Through case studies of the fan communities of the <I>Hamilton</I> musical, and Norwegian streaming hit <I>SKAM</I>, along with examples from many other online fan communities, the book dives into how fans navigate and create play rules as part of their community-building in a networked digital landscape and how they use the digital affordances of social media to engage in language play. It analyses the role of mediatized fan play in the context of political culture and identifies processes of fanization as fans'' play moods and modes are integrated into politics. Finally, the book discusses the role of fan play in the context of the global conspiracy theory, QAnon, as those instigating the conspiracy and those who are fans of the movement engage in dark play and deep