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Media Studies
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As fandom scholars who are also music lovers, we have focused on the noon heat of passion, not the ways in which fandom can wax and wane. Even the precise reasons why any particular individual's fandom might end have rarely been examined and are poorly understood. Fandom always just seems there. Our relative blindness to its beginnings, endings and history is endemic to the field.
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― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
― Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music
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For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true convergence lies not in an external reality , but in an internal truth: What kids seek from video games is what we all seek from our own distractions--be they movies, radio, comic books, literature, or art: an escape from the mundane to the sublime, where our imaginations make of us heroes, lovers, warriors, and gods.
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― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
― Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
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