Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)

<Previous Article In Volume
Next Article In Volume>

Chinese fandoms on Weibo: devotion and aggression

Authors
Ruoxin Yang1, *
1School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: Ml21r2y@leeds.ac.uk
Corresponding Author
Ruoxin Yang
Available Online 31 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_26How to use a DOI?
Keywords
fandoms; Weibo; Chinese fandoms; social media
Abstract

Sina Weibo is one of the popular social media sites in China. It boasts millions of users. Digital social media can easily bring together fans from different geographical areas on the same platform and can turn their actions into a digital presentation that can be recorded and disseminated. This paper looks at the Chinese fandom on Weibo. The fans show their devotion and aggression by giving their favourite idols unrestricted amounts of time and money, as well as by defending them with very violent methods like verbal abuse and reporting. This is a result of the rank’s construction escalating fan rivalry and the idols’ implied endorsement of its inclusion. Fandoms that are so devoted and aggressive must be discouraged by idols, social media platforms, and even the government since it is bad for fans’ own mental health and the growth of a peaceful online community. Fans themselves must maintain reason. Overall, this study supports the notion that it takes the efforts of several parties to create an organised fan base successfully.

Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

<Previous Article In Volume
Next Article In Volume>
Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 October 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_26
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_26How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Cite this article

risenwbib
TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruoxin Yang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/31
TI  - Chinese fandoms on Weibo: devotion and aggression
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 216
EP  - 223
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_26
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-126-5_26
ID  - Yang2023
ER  -