June 2008
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International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
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December 2007
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Networking Knowledge Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
Dressing up as Vampires is an ethnographic audience study investigating issues of identity and the masquerade within the active female vampire fan community. Drawing on previous theoretical material by Milly Williamson (2005), Paul Hodkinson (2002) and wider methodological approaches such as Lori Kendall (1999) this paper will focus on the negotiation of female fans’ identities across various online networks such as MySpace, LiveJournal, VEIN (Vampire Exchange Information Network) and Yahoo newsgroups. Its objective is to explore how identity is constructed in the virtual community via imagery (avatars & graphics), photography and text and to what extent this online persona encroaches and impacts upon fans’ ‘real lives’. Through analysis of these online networks I will suggest that female vampire fans use the Internet as an extension of their identity, and although they may construct an alternate persona within cyberspace, this usually serves as a reinforcement of their idealised ‘real life’ identity.
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... Recent online research has also shown that online networks are organised in selective hierarchies, with key members holding the positions of information providers and social coordinators, ―enhancing sub– cultural participation‖ [12]. The goth community, discussed by Hodkinson (2003) in Goth.Net, and the vampire online community, analysed by Mellins (2007), were found to form virtual member clubs, where each site linked to another autonomous site forming a wider ―infrastructure‖ [13] or sub–network. ―News and events can spread much faster than they could ever hope to face–to–face and users can feel part of a virtual community‖ (Mellins, 2007). ...
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December 2007
Networking Knowledge Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
... Studies have explored the main functions of SNS in terms of social networking (Mendez et al., 2020), impression management (Lee & Jang, 2019), self-presentation in profiles (Djafarova & Trofimenko, 2017), proliferation of special interest networks (Mellins, 2008;Oomen, 2020), gender differences (Krasnova et al., 2017;Lin & Wang, 2020), and social network structure (Holme et al., 2004;Shi & Whinston, 2013). However, few studies have been conducted on factors that influence user addiction to SNS. ...
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Are People Addicted to Social Networks?
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June 2008
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics