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Anonymous, QAnon, Tik-tok teens, K-pop fans

dc.creatorCho, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-12T09:33:17Z
dc.date.available2022-07-12T09:33:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis essay examines online rumors concerning K-pop fans’ transitioning group affinity from one of media fandom to one of progressive political organising against white supremacy and police brutality in the US context. Rather than aiming to confirm or debunk these rumors, I instead argue that they are worthy of attention in their own right, as a window into the importance of social media rumor as ‘improvised public opinion’ in today’s media environments. I assert that one particular set of rumors – comparing K-pop fans and Anonymous – promotes timely reflection on anonymity’s affordances for the politics of fandom and processes of knowledge production in transnational media ecosystems. Doing so, I argue, confirms anonymity’s importance toward building solidarity, while also revealing the key epistemological function of rumor on Twitter.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18842
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/anonymous-qanon-tik-tok-teens-k-pop-fans/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19992
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectplatformsen
dc.subjectfandomen
dc.subjectTwitteren
dc.subjectactivismen
dc.subjectrumoren
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAnonymous, QAnon, Tik-tok teens, K-pop fansen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-07-12T12:22:19
local.source.epage193
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Rumors
local.source.spage169
local.source.volume11

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