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FA N D O M S ! W H AT ’ S
TRENDING AND HOW
Y O U C A N B R I N G FA N S
TO YOUR LIBRARY
PCI WEBINARS | CARRIE ROGERS-WHITEHEAD |
R O G E R S - W H I T E H E A D @ H OT M A I L . C O M
I’M A BIG
GEEK
• I love the power of
fandoms to bring
people together. Their
universal stories bring
together people of
different cultures and
backgrounds.
WHAT THIS WEBINAR COVERS
Bringing fans in the library
Fandom trends • Outreach
• Streaming services • Marketing ideas
• TV • Social media
• Graphic novels • Partnerships
• Podcasts • Displays
• Gaming References
FANDOM & GEEK TRENDS T V, B O O K , M OV I E , A N D VIDEO GAME TRENDS
TV FANDOMS • CW- Gen Z station and place for YA adaptations • The 100 • Supergirl • The Flash • Riverdale • Batwoman (new!) • Arrow • DC: Legends of Tomorrow
SOME POPULAR TV FANDOMS Dr Who The Walking Dead Star Trek Discovery BBC AMC CBS
MORE POPULAR TV FANDOMS Bob’s Burgers Sherlock A Discovery of Witches FOX BBC AMC
VIDEO GAME FANDOMS • Mobile games • PC Games • RPGs • MMORPGS • Console games
SOME VIDEO GAME FANDOMS World of Warcraft Fortnite Mario MMORPGS All platforms Video games
E S P O RT S “Over half of eSports fans are between 18- 34 and many teens make up the fan base. …These typical fans are highly engaged. Like a football fan who has a season pass and tailgates each home game, an eSport fan will spend a significant amount of time and even travel, for their games.” “Fans aren't just spending time on eSports, they're spending money. It's estimated by Mindshare North America that expenditures on eSports will reach over a billion dollars in 2019. Some of the biggest celebrity players in eSports make six figures. eSports is a growing part of the gaming landscape, and is not going away any time soon.”- Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Digital Citizenship: Teaching Strategies and Practice from the Field
NETFLIX AND FANDOMS • Netflix has made older shows popular and brought new audiences to certain genres • It has greatly increased it’s original content, creating new fandoms
NETFLIX AND ANIME Netflix is the exclusive distributor of lots of anime Netflix has brought back popular shows like Evangelion Netflix has popularized many anime Netflix Originals aren’t created by Netflix, but Netflix has the exclusive rights such as: Ajin, Castlevania etc.
CURRENT POPULAR ANIME • My Hero Academia- Shonen adventure story about superheroes • Attack on Titan- Shonen action with humans fighting giants • Isekai- Which are stories where people are transported to video games, or even reserve isekai where video games players are in the real world • KonoSuba- Isekai with goddesses and an ordinary teen boy • One Punch Man- Shonen about a hero who destroys things with just one punch • Dr. Stone- dystopian series in the future where people are turned to stone
OTHER STREAMING FANDOMS Good Omens Runaways Westworld Amazon Prime Hulu HBO Now
DISNEY OWNS MARVEL, STAR WARS, D R E A M W O R K S , P I X A R A N D 2 1 ST C E N T U R Y F O X
DISNEY PLUS Shows coming up on Disney Plus (so far): • Star Wars: Clone Wars • Mandalorian • Loki • WandaVision • Hawkeye • Mighty Ducks and Sandlot reboot • Monsters at Work • Muppets Revival • Lots more…
PODCAST FANDOMS Nightvale Alice isn’t Dead The Bright Sessions OG of fictional podcasts spanning a Quirky podcast spinoff from Nightvale Fictional recorded therapy sessions wide fandom, international tour and creator with a Dr. Bright. Being adapted for TV rabid fanbase and a YA series
POPULAR GEEK PODCASTS • Rocket Talk- sci fi author podcast • Nerdist Podcast- very large following • Tabletop- where Wil Wheaton and friends play games and talk • Adventure Zone- comedic DnD podcast • More to Come- podcast about comics and graphic novels by Publisher’s Weekly
GRAPHIC NOVEL TRENDS • Creators on Twitch IRL channels creating meet ups • More content on digital platforms • The medium is flourishing, allowing for smaller publishers to compete • More than 1 billion in sales in 2017 • More comics being supported through crowdfunding
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FANDOM?
BRINGING FANS IN THE LIBRARY M A R K E T I N G , O U T R E AC H AND MORE
PASSIVE GEEK COMPETITION DISPLAYS Fandom voting Battle of the geeks Versus: DC vs. Marvel
Where to find geeks on social media
• Reddit
• Tumblr- although not as much as in
the past
• DeviantArt
• FanFiction.Net and AO3 (Archive of
our own)
• 4chan- Beware!
• Discord
• And traditional social media:
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.
23V I S UA L N OV E L S • Interactive game genre, think Choose Your Own Adventure • Usually has anime style art • Sometimes visual novels are turned into light novels or manga. They are very popular in Japan and growing in popularity in the US. • How can libraries capitalize on visual novels?
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT • Group by series • Keeping graphic novels near the drawing books • Video game novel section • Pulling out in between books, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, that aren’t graphic novels but aren’t fully novels • Book into movie display
GEEK OUTREACH • Conventions • Comic Book Stores • Renaissance Faires • Gaming Stores- go to a gaming night or host the game store • Cosplay/Costume stores • Live podcast shows • Stores with gaming like Microsoft, Best Buy
news • Nerdlist • Buzzfeed Geeky • io9 • Geek Tyrant • Den of Geek • Geek Insider • Polygon • IGN 27
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
• First Saturday in May
• Run by Diamond Comics Distribution
• Contact Diamond Comics way in advance
• Every year there are different comics
• There are comics for kids, teens and adultsREFERENCES • Rogers-Whitehead, C. (2018). Teen Fandom and Geek Programming: a Practical Guide for Librarians. Rowman and Littlefield. • Free Comic Book Day https://www.freecomicbookday.com • https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry- news/comics/article/78393-selling-graphic-novels-in-a-changing-american- marketplace.html • “Top 5 Ways to Celebrate Batman Day 2017,” DC Comics, http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/08/23/top-5-ways-to-celebrate-batman- day-2017 • Visual Novels Database https://vndb.org • https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/originals/anime/ • https://www.themanual.com/culture/best-fiction-podcasts/
QUESTIONS AND
DISCUSSION
THANKS! | ROGERS-
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