How does esports fan culture drive emotional engagement and consumption among young audiences?
Lottie Liu From cheering for your favourite team, to buying virtual items, to creating fan content, e-sports spectators are no…
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When appreciation becomes attachment: celebrity fan and young people in the social media era
CAO Yuhan Celebrity fan refers to a series of emotional investment, community interaction, cultural practice and consumption behaviour generated by…
Retrospective Refuge: In the Torrent of Algorithms, We Are Collectively Fabricating a Past
Jiang Peiyi History has never been presented to us with such vividness, nor has it ever felt so profoundly artificial.…
Dressed to Conform: How Fast Fashion, Social Media and Algorithms Killed Creative Rebellion
ZHANG SHENGJIE I. Introduction Is fashion just about what you wear? Hardly. As Elon Musk posted on X in March…
The K-pop culture: From Korea to the world
YUAN Linying Source: K-pop Landscape In 2012, a music video featuring a dynamic dance and a man wearing a bow…
Living for the Algorithm: Why Our Best Moments Are Now Someone Else’s Content
Jiaxin Chen What is true? Is it the emotion you really feel now, or the screen in front of you?…
AI-Generated Music as Copyright Exploitation
Chen Yiyun What would happen if the next hit song on the chart was not composed by a human artist,…