TY - JOUR
T1 - Life course transitions and the future of fandom
AU - Harrington, C. Lee
AU - Bielby, Denise D.
AU - Bardo, Anthony R.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - We explore the future of media fandom through integrating insights from gerontology, human development, fan studies, and marketing. Given population aging and the dismantling of the normative 20th-century life course, along with rapid changes in the extent to which our lives are mediated, fandom is undergoing significant modification. We focus on how new findings on emotional maturation over the life course and scholarly identification of self-narrativization as a resource for 21st-century aging suggest ways that fandom may change over time.
AB - We explore the future of media fandom through integrating insights from gerontology, human development, fan studies, and marketing. Given population aging and the dismantling of the normative 20th-century life course, along with rapid changes in the extent to which our lives are mediated, fandom is undergoing significant modification. We focus on how new findings on emotional maturation over the life course and scholarly identification of self-narrativization as a resource for 21st-century aging suggest ways that fandom may change over time.
KW - aging
KW - demographic transitions
KW - marketing
KW - media fans
KW - media representations
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U2 - 10.1177/1367877911419158
DO - 10.1177/1367877911419158
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054765278
SN - 1367-8779
VL - 14
SP - 567
EP - 590
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 6
ER -