Fans Culture Research Of The Fan-based Idol In The New Media Era

With the advent of the new media era,social informatization-based quickening of process,social media is developing rapidly,and fans are gathering in groups and ascending to the stage of history to form a unique cultural system.New media technology is constantly innovating,and social platforms such as Weibo,Forum,Post Bar,and Douban give fans many opportunities to “engage” idol life and growth.The distance between fans and idols is no longer out of reach,and fans even have the dominance of this relations.When the the fan-based idols appeared,the fan-based idol fan culture in the new media era had new features and display forms.This article uses the popular juvenile idol group TFBOYS as a case,uses text analysis and online ethnography research methods,personally enters TFBOYS's online fan community,combines in-depth interviews with fans,understands the fan group's organizational structure and daily operations,and explores fans' group identity.In the introduction part,this article reviews the research results of fan culture both at home and abroad,and focuses on the three stages of the study of fan culture by Western scholars.The theoretical results produced during this period have significant implications for domestic scholars to conduct fan culture research.The text is divided into four parts.The first part introduces the emergence and development of idol-like idols,the carrier of idol growth,the development of the “idol fostering” network,and the network “cultivation” of the idol group TFBOYS.The second part of the network “Idol fosters”;based on the author's observations and interviews with TFBOYS fans,the author analyzes the reasons why social platforms can become a fan to “cultivate” idols,and puts forward the network development “idol ageing”."The three characteristics of 'developing socializing' and 'fans' centralization',and restoring the organizational structure and operational management of the fancommunity of the network 'cultivating' idols;the third part analyzes 'formation' The fan-like individual's practice,the interaction of fans with other people and groups,shows the information and knowledge sharing among fans,the display of skills and talents,the exchange of emotions,and the fanciers and social activities of the"cultivation department" in confrontation.The "bred up" fan community in China agrees to explore the psychological mechanisms that form self-identity and group identity.The last part illustrates new changes in the traditional fan culture by showing new features of the “cultivation” idol fan culture in the new media era.Fans form an“unorganized organizational force” in the online virtual community under the new media era.".In addition,through “collection and reorganization,” fans in the new media era are no longer in a weak position and have already had a great influence on mainstream culture.