Online Fan Communities, Then and Now | Postdigital Information Behavior of Ender's Game and GoT Fans

Ch-ch-changes: Lives Online, Then and Now. This presentation is a tale of two online fan communities. This is the story of Sleepless Whispers, a community of Ender’s Game fans and young writers that formed in the late ‘90s. It is the story of #FakeWesteros, a present-day community of live-tweeting and role-playing Game of Thrones fans. One became the site of a virtual coming-of-age in the wild digital landscape of web forums pre-Web 2.0. The other faces an existential crisis as HBO’s Game of Thrones ends, living online in tweets. While exploring the technological and social changes that have taken place in the last 20 years, I will share with you one aspect of online community that remains the same.

Speaker bio (written by Eric Forcier): I love science-fiction and fantasy. I am a fan. But I’m also a fan of fans: I think fans can teach us a lot about how entertainment, media technologies and information are profoundly intertwingled in contemporary life. That’s why, as a researcher, I study fandom. I am a PhD candidate and member of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. My research explores the information-related activities of transmedia fans in postdigital everyday life. I hold advanced degrees in library and information studies and humanities computing, which isn’t as great an icebreaker at parties as you might think. Disclaimer: While David Bowie fandom would make for a super fascinating Nerd Nite talk, he sadly doesn’t feature in this one. (Sorry!)

Check out the study mentioned in the presentation - When the World Ends: Study of #FakeWesteros: http://ericforcier.ca/when-the-world-ends-study-of-fakewesteros/

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