Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 3, Elizabeth Anne Bailey

Archers Fandom and the Online Public Sphere Elizabeth Anne BaileyThis chapter considers some of the confluent factors which shape debate in the online public sphere the intersections between this and the practice of fandom generally and Archers fandom in particular. Situating fandom as a part of the wider online public sphere it considers its performative aspects, characteristics of online behaviour, the role of emotion and some of the hard-wired factors which underpin this. It concludes...