Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media
The 2016 Brexit decision and Donald Trump's election to the US presidency that same year led to a wide variety of social media activity, ranging from visceral anger to unadulterated jubilation. How members of particular fandoms choose to express their emotions regarding a geopolitical event can...
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| description | The 2016 Brexit decision and Donald Trump's election to the US presidency that same year led to a wide variety of social media activity, ranging from visceral anger to unadulterated jubilation. How members of particular fandoms choose to express their emotions regarding a geopolitical event can be filtered through the lens of their fannish enthusiasm. Analysis of Doctor Who-influenced geopolitical engagement on Facebook that uses case studies of both Brexit and Donald Trump's election and 2017 inauguration shows that fans used Doctor Who to cope with emotionally taxing geopolitical events and expressed their anguish through the lens of selected Doctor Who plotlines. This use of social media permits fans to shape a new geopolitical landscape within which they can grapple with their political surroundings as influenced by their fandom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f0960f5564f4ac2b6d06ebd9f227dac2022-12-21T18:23:20ZengOrganization for Transformative WorksTransformative Works and Cultures1941-22581941-22582020-03-0132https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1675Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social mediaHannah Carilyn Gunderman0Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, United StatesThe 2016 Brexit decision and Donald Trump's election to the US presidency that same year led to a wide variety of social media activity, ranging from visceral anger to unadulterated jubilation. How members of particular fandoms choose to express their emotions regarding a geopolitical event can be filtered through the lens of their fannish enthusiasm. Analysis of Doctor Who-influenced geopolitical engagement on Facebook that uses case studies of both Brexit and Donald Trump's election and 2017 inauguration shows that fans used Doctor Who to cope with emotionally taxing geopolitical events and expressed their anguish through the lens of selected Doctor Who plotlines. This use of social media permits fans to shape a new geopolitical landscape within which they can grapple with their political surroundings as influenced by their fandom.https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1675/2413data miningfacebookfandomscience fiction |
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| title | Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media |
| title_full | Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media |
| title_fullStr | Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media |
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| title_short | Fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of Brexit, Donald Trump, and Doctor Who on social media |
| title_sort | fan geographies and engagement between geopolitics of brexit donald trump and doctor who on social media |
| topic | data mining fandom science fiction |
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