Introduction -- Re-defining the fan. Returning to 'becoming-a-fan' stories : theorising transformational objects and the emergence/extension of fandom / Matt Hills ; Populating the universe : toy collecting and adult lives / Kristen N. Bryant, Denicse D. Bielby, and C. Lee Harrington ; Much ado about Keanu Reeves : the drama of ageing in online fandom / Shenja van der Graaf ; Music for (something other than) pleasure : anti-fans and the other side of popular music appeal / Liz Giuffre ; A severe case of disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger : analysing celebrities' online anti-fans / Nathalie Claessens and Hilde Van den Bulck ; Fandom as survival in media life / the Janissary Collective ; From interpretive communities to interpretative fairs : ordinary fandom, textual selection and digital media / Cornel Sandvoss and Laura Kearns -- Fans and producers. Fan/celebrity interactions and social media : connectivity and engagement in Lady Gaga fandom / Lucy Bennett ; Fans of folklore performances : identifying a new relationship between communication and marketing / Angela Chang ; Investors and patrons, gatekeepers and social capital : representations and experiences of fans' participation in fan funding / Francesco D'Amato ; Music fans as mediators in the age of digital reproduction / Arturo Arriagada and Victor Cruz ; Celebrity : the return of the repressed in fan studies? / Mark Duffett ; Fans who cut their soaps queer : a queer theoretical study into online fandom of gay television representation / Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel -- Localities of fandom. Transnational cultural fandom / Hye-Kyung Lee ; Retreating behind the scenes : the 'less'-civilising impact of virtual spaces on the Irish heavy metal scene / Gary Sinclair ; "Kvt-er than thou' : power, suspicion an nostalgia within the black metal fandom / Ross Hagen ; A decade in the life of online fan communities / Ruth A. Deller ; Placing fan cultures : Xenites in the transnational spaces of fandom / Kaarina Nikunen ; Emobodied fantasy : the affective space of anime conventions / NIcolle Lamerichs ; Watching football in the fan park : mediatization, spectatorship and fan identity / Karin Becker, Robert Kautsky and Andreas Widholm ; 'We're not racist, we only hate Mancs' : post-subculture and football fandom / Steve Redhead

1. Music fans
2. Fans (Persons)
3. Subculture