Life course transitions and the future of fandom

C. Lee Harrington; Denise D. Bielby; Anthony R. Bardo

doi:10.1177/1367877911419158

Life course transitions and the future of fandom

C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby, Anthony R. Bardo

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	567-590
Number of pages	24
Journal	International Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877911419158
State	Published - Nov 2011

Keywords

aging
demographic transitions
marketing
media fans
media representations

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Cultural Studies

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