Future of Fandom

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DoomsdayX

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sari

We the Fans: How Our Powers Can Change the World - Pop Culture Collaborative

Pop Culture Collab popcollab.org

Jessica Ryan

Home Page

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sari

Beyond the Failure Market in Video Games

Noah Caldwell-Gervais thebaffler.com

Sarah Drinkwater

NFTs and a Thousand True Fans

Chris Dixon future.a16z.com

Sam Blumenthal

LitPic | The Social App That Pays And Gives You Status #GetLit

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sari

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

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Sixian

Azurbala

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Emilie Kormienko

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I think the McLuhan-esque take is to say that Fandoms are themselves voluntary culture-war militias recruited from the general population. An argument could be made that groups like Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc... are in essence fandom para-military orgs with $$$.

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Sarah Drinkwater