Fans and fan culture

Bennett, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2007. Fans and fan culture. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley, (10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosf025.pub2)

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Abstract

Fans and fan culture raise important issues of power, creativity, and knowledge within media sociology and cultural studies. Digital technology in particular has altered the landscape of fandom, offering new forms of interaction with the object of fandom and the wider fan community, and enhanced possibilities for creativity – a vibrant sphere of fan culture. As it stands, fan cultures and fan studies scholarship is a dynamic discipline that can inform us richly about active audiences and engagement with texts, power, consumption, and more broadly about human behavior, understandings, and interactions. This entry traces the development of fandom and fan studies and considers the discussions, concerns, and research areas that are currently igniting the field.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Wiley
ISBN:	9781405124331
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2026 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/190744

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