Webin this chapter, we study fandom using a historical and comparative approach demonstrating that, if we historicize fandom, we can easily see how digital fan. Webin this review i propose that cultural evolution theory, including both a sophisticated view of human behavior and a methodological attitude to modeling and. Webthe digital revolution has had a profound impact upon fandom, empowering and disempowering, blurring the lines between producers and consumers, creating. Webit then describes how fandom research has demonstrated that—as subcultures—fan communities can replicate and enact many of the same class,. Online spaces create arenas for interaction, community building, and deviance which previously did not exist. Many subcultural activities have traditionally. Webin our digital era, fandom has become a social and cultural phenomenon, notably in thailand. Fans are dedicated, and creating fan text (i. e. , text production made. Webthe use of our methodology seeks to analyze how subculture functioned before the emergence of the internet, using punk as a principal example, and put it in. Webdefined as cultural units that spread from person to person, memes were debated long before the digital era. Yet the internet turned the spread of memes into a.
