media magazine "Fans and Fandom"

Being a fan - taking part in the shared activities and practices of a fan community- seems to have become an ordinary,everyday part of media use.

The author of fans (2005), cornel sandovos, offers up the following: "i define fandom as the regular, emotionally involved consumption of a given popular narrative or text."

like a ind of 'love',this emotional involvement may even be so intense as to go beyond an individual fans ability fully to put it into words and explain it. partly for this reason, and partly because fan love is often felt to have an authencity and a privacy for fans.

fans are highly critical and creative audiences; they don't just criticize their beloved shows or franchises when they fall short of expectation, they also make their own fan films, or write their own fan fiction.

fan authencity can also be a matter of getting early access to media content, with movie fans typically wanting to attend the earliest possible previews of screening and TV fans wanting to see YouTube clips or other on demand content ahead of official broadcast.

conventional media fan objects from brands that we are emotionally invested in; that we regularly and perhaps habitually consume; that we might have built up considerable knowledge about, and which may have become part of our self identities.

fandom and music have a particularly close relationship probably because, more than any other medium, music can evoke very strong emotions in its audiences. for most, music is little more than entertainment and individuals identify themselves as fans of certain genres. for others music is identified.

when fans become emotionally attached to a celebrity, this creates a form of obsession because they are drawn to the celebs and want to know the ins and outs of their lives. many people become fans because they can relate to them in some way. some people feel connected to the celebs which gives them an identity.

Also when celebrities are constantly shown to us through the media , we automatically become fond of them in some way and before we know it we find ourselves fans. whether we like to think we are or not. seeing them constantly becomes our norms.