TWILIGHT SAGA FANDOM Kimberly Fox

WHAT IS FANDOM?

The community that surrounds a TV show/movie/ book etc.

Fanfiction writers, artists, and poets are all members of that fandom.

Fandoms often consist of message boards, livejournalcommunities, and people.

WHY FANDOM?

Uses and gratificationsSurveillance

Personal identity

Social interaction

Diversion

TWIHARD

Twilight fans are made up of teenage girls and middle-aged women

http://twifans.com/

Why Twilight fandom?“That Teenage Feeling” (Peterson)Fantasy, desire, pleasure

Re-live the feelings of first love

I’M WITH THE FANPIRES

Types of Twilight fans:Twilighter

Twilight Fan

Guys who like Twilight

Twats

Twivictims

TWIMOMS

www.confessionsofatwilightmom.comRaise money for Foundation for America’s Blood Centers (FABC)

Confessions of a Twilight Mom book

Husbands and children are mad

NUTTYMADAM

Biggest Twilight fanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Qrt1k8qHo&list=TLGUpfUoIkGgY

TWILIGHTERSMerchandisehttp://io9.com/5960612/please-god-no-why-why-why-why-why/

Obsessionhttps://www.fanfiction.net/book/Twilight/http://stepheniemeyer.com/ts_fansites.html

REFERENCES http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fandom

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTIcYoqhbbVJFdwi32oxrGE1fZ2FjTA9jWiXILYsmXBGcp8S4DjCYXUaI

Peterson, A. H. (2014). That Teenage Feeling: Twilight, Fantasy, and Feminist Readers. In Dines, G. & Humez, J. M. (Eds.) Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader (pp. 342-352). Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications.

http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2012/11/landmark-moments-twilight-fandom/59065/

http://applesparkles.wikia.com/wiki/Types_of_Twilight_Fans

http://www.confessionsofatwilightmom.com/

http://nymag.com/movies/features/62027/

http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2012/07/camping-comic-con-twilight-fan-dies-trying-keep-her-place-line/54415/

http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2012/11/16/rendered/9733a7561c79165f6aa80abb97a0f9dc_600x514.jpg

http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2012/11/16/rendered/d9a70cee6c7e6b79b7907b31fb5e2600_600x466.jpg

http://letterstorob.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nuttymadam.jpeg

https://www.fanfiction.net/book/Twilight/

http://flowtv.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/twilightfansredcarpet.png

http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-be-twihards-forever.png

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/05/article-0-0CA6B28F000005DC-196_634x911.jpg