Fan-tagonism in social networks: controversy among fans of Globo’s Sete Vidas

Authors

  • Cecília Almeida Rodrigues Lima Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Faculdade Boa Viagem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2016.108311

Keywords:

Fandom, Telenovela, Social networks, Controversy.

Abstract

This paper analyses conflicts that constitute fan communities, in their disputes for discoursive domain over a media object. It understands fandom not as coherent and closed communities, but as spaces that favor disputes and antagonism that are expressed in the form of controversies, disputes and discussions. Our object of analysis is the telenovela Sete Vidas, exhibited by Rede Globo de Televisão in 2015. The final chapters of the novela splitted fans into two groups of shippers (#PeJu and #JuLipe), that disputed up until the last moments to prove their hypothesis and win. Those groups have used Twitter and Rede Globo’s Fan Page on Facebook to express their arguments, that were analysed and categorized as discoursives topoi. 

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Author Biography

  • Cecília Almeida Rodrigues Lima, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Faculdade Boa Viagem
    Mestre em Comunicação Social pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (PPGCOM-UFPE) e atualmente doutoranda no mesmo programa, onde estuda televisão e sua articulação com novas mídias. É docente na Faculdade Boa Viagem (FBV/DeVry).

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Published

2016-07-18

Issue

Section

ARTICLES

How to Cite

Lima, C. A. R. (2016). Fan-tagonism in social networks: controversy among fans of Globo’s Sete Vidas. Novos Olhares, 5(1), 56-68. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2016.108311