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Scholar Mel Stanfill’s ‘Exploiting Fandom’ Takes on Big Business and Media Manipulation
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Scholar Mel Stanfill’s ‘Exploiting Fandom’ Takes on Big Business and Media Manipulation

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 / 12 April 2019

Exploiting Fandom brings together mainstream sports fandoms and speculative media fandoms, often finding strong correlations between the two.

‘Half a Million Strong’ Studies the Intersection of Crowds and Power at Rock Festivals
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‘Half a Million Strong’ Studies the Intersection of Crowds and Power at Rock Festivals

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 / 20 February 2019

Gina Arnold's research into rock festivals in the US, Half a Million Strong, reveals that it's about the music, yes, but it's also very much about you.