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“these people were exploring the ultra popular fandom to become more completely themselves… do not indicate popular culture is shaping their identity, but rather, they are shaping their identity with popular culture… the importance of fandom for identity is not so much the disorder caused by the mass media as it is about the order found in devotion.”