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This article investigates the importance of popular media in everyday life, more specifically in everyday girl culture. Based on eight months of ethnographic research with a group of 8th graders (ages 11—12), it explores the role of media in an everyday setting: the classroom. The study is informed by two central research questions: how do girls use media in the classroom and how important are media to their everyday life? It aims to provide an empirical, theoretical and methodological contribution to existing literature. First, it empirically contributes to our knowledge of everyday media use in general and in the school context specifically. Second, it adds to theory about audiences, more precisely about the media's role in identity practices. Third, it shows how different methods produce different results about the importance of media.

This article focuses on the norms that govern everyday girl culture. It investigates how young girls talk about social behaviour and appearance. Based on 1.5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, it reconstructs four interpretative repertoires through which girls reflect on themselves and others: the politically correct repertoire, and the repertoires of choice, authenticity and normalcy. The article argues that identity is reflexively constructed with others based on these norms.

This article addresses girls' dress, which has become controversial, especially in contemporary multicultural Europe. Using the Dutch public debate about the headscarf, belly shirts, visible G-strings, and other forms of 'porno-chic', the authors show that these seemingly separate debates are held together by the regulation of female sexuality. Through their analysis of the headscarves and porno-chic debate, the authors argue that women's sexuality and girls' bodies in particular have become the metonymic location for many a contemporary social dilemma: of the multicultural society when it concerns the scarf, of feminism and public morality when it concerns porno-chic. They conclude that despite the widely different appearance of girls wearing headscarves or porno-chic, both groups of girls are submitted to the meta-narratives of dominant discourse: the state, school, public opinion, parents and other social institutions 'resignify' their everyday practices as inappropriate, and reprieve them from the power to define their own actions.

The chapters of this volume elucidate the key themes of the fan studies vernacular. As the contributing authors draw from recent empirical work around the globe, the book provides fresh insights and innovative angles on the latest developments within fan cultures, both online and offline. Because the volume is specifically set up as a Companion for researchers, the chapters include recommendations for the further study of fan cultures. As such, it represents an essential reference volume for researchers and scholars in the fields of cultural and media studies, communication, cultural geography

Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Re-defining the Fan -- 1 Returning to 'Becoming-a-Fan' Stories: Theorising Transformational Objects and the Emergence/Extension of Fandom -- 2 Populating the Universe: Toy Collecting and Adult Lives -- 3 Much Ado about Keanu Reeves: The Drama of Ageing in Online Fandom -- 4 Music for (Something Other than) Pleasure: Anti-fans and the Other Side of Popular Music Appeal -- 5 A Severe Case of Disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger: Analysing Celebrities' Online Anti-fans -- 6 Fandom as Survival in Media Life -- 7 From Interpretive Communities to Interpretative Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media -- Part II Fans and Producers -- 8 Fan/Celebrity Interactions and Social Media: Connectivity and Engagement in Lady Gaga Fandom -- 9 Fans of Folklore Performances: Identifying a New Relationship Between Communication and Marketing -- 10 Investors and Patrons, Gatekeepers and Social Capital -- 11 Music Fans as Mediators in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- 12 Celebrity: The Return of the Repressed in Fan Studies? -- 13 Fans Who Cut Their Soaps Queer: A Queer Theoretical Study into Online Fandom of Gay Television Representation -- Part III Localities of Fandom -- 14 Transnational Cultural Fandom -- 15 Retreating Behind the Scenes: The 'Less'-Civilizing Impact of Virtual Spaces on the Irish Heavy Metal Scene -- 16 'Kvlt-er than Thou': Power, Suspicion and Nostalgia within Black Metal Fandom -- 17 A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities -- 18 Placing Fan Cultures: Xenites in the Transnational Spaces of Fandom -- 19 Embodied Fantasy: The Affective Space of Anime Conventions -- 20 Watching Football in the Fan Park: Mediatization, Spectatorship and Fan Identity.