Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture

＂In theory, fans are people who love something, so why, across cases from comic books to TV shows to YouTube to politicians to fan fiction, do fans engage in large-scale social media harassment to express their anger, and what does it tell us about media and public culture?＂--

Mel Stanfill is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill is the author of three books, including Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy.