异议
代理(哲学)
社会学
在线社区
公共关系
粉丝
信息需求
信息交流
社会化媒体
互联网隐私
透视图(图形)
在线参与
集团信息管理
万维网
个人可识别信息
信息共享
参与式文化
公民新闻
信息系统
社区建设
信息搜寻
互联网
品牌社群
旅游
信息获取
Web 2.0版
媒体研究
中国
广告
把关控制
信息技术
信息来源(数学)
网络文化
个人信息管理
标识
DOI:10.1108/jd-12-2024-0306
摘要
Purpose This paper investigates how Chinese celebrity fans create and share “unneeded” interpretation-centered information within their communities online. Fans’ information activities and their approach to the information needs of both like-minded and dissenting community members reveal insights about how contemporary people exchange information and build social connections and boundaries within online communities. Design/methodology/approach Focusing on a typical online fandom community – that surrounding popular Chinese musical actor Ayanga – this study used unobtrusive observation of 56 fans on the Weibo social media platform and sequential semi-structured interviews with 22 individual fans. Findings Fans share their interpretation-centered emotions, rationales, fanworks and summarizations with assenters, while arguing with dissenters about how their own interpretations are the “correct” ones. During this process, fans project and impose information needs onto community members and then push toward them the corresponding information. As fans’ actions toward dissenting community members are less friendly and more forceful, dissenters are regarded as opponents and in-community boundaries are built. Originality/value Applying an information sciences perspective to online fan communities, this study offers insights into how contemporary people create information not to satisfy in-community information needs but to assert personal agency in shaping others’ feeds. The author suggests that today’s netizens seek to dictate the information community members can see, and that in-community information creating and sharing can reinforce not only community connections but also divisions.
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