Knowra Fandom Fandom A community of people who share an intense interest in a person, creative work, or fictional world, often expressed through discussion, creation, and collective identity.
Fan culture : The practices, norms, and creative expressions associated with fans and their communities. It names the cultural patterns that distinguish fandom from private appreciation.
Fan fiction : Fiction written by fans that uses characters, settings, or ideas from an existing work. It lets fans extend fictional worlds through their own stories.
Online community : A group whose members interact and build relationships primarily through digital communication. Digital spaces let fans sustain communities across distance and time.
Audience : People who receive or attend a work, performance, or communication. An audience can consume a work without developing fandom’s sustained shared practices.
Fan identity : A sense of self shaped partly by affiliation with a particular fan community. Shared allegiance gives members a way to describe themselves and recognize one another.
Fan art : Artwork made by fans in response to or using elements from an existing work or public figure. Visual reinterpretation is one of fandom’s most visible creative practices.
Social media : Digital platforms that enable users to publish content and interact with other users. Fans use these platforms to circulate news, interpretations, and creative work.
Consumer culture : A social order in which buying and using goods strongly shape identity and everyday life. Fandom can involve consumption, but also creation and forms of participation that exceed it.
Participatory culture : A culture in which people actively create, share, and circulate media rather than only consuming it. Fandom often turns audiences into contributors and collaborators.
Cosplay : The practice of creating and wearing costumes that represent fictional characters or other figures. It makes shared attachment visible through performance and craft.
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