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Hello my name is Stephanie Haugaard and I am a college student who is doing research on fandom and how fandom has influenced media industries.  I was wondering if you could help me out by answering a couple of questions. This will only be used as a college project and privacy will be protected. For those participating in this interview please answer these questions by Monday May 2, 2016 at 4pm. Thank you. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

1. What is your main area of participation on westeros.org and/or A Forum of Ice and Fire?

2. How do you think you have influenced media industries through your participation in westeros.org and/or other fandom community participations such as Comic Con?

3. How do you think your participation influenced the progress and success of Game of Thrones?

4.  What media industry or industries do you think have been influenced by your participation in these fan communities?

 



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Talk to us in the chat at the bottom of the page Steph! We'd be happy to help if we knew you for a bit.

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1. I was a former member of Westeros.org, but too many people that seem not be able to separate the books from the TV adaptation lead to many ( including some of us) looking for new places to discuss the show and books with less purist views.
This forum was created for those fans.

2. Well fans of the series are very vocal on not only sites like this but also Twitter and FB. Especially the TV show seemed to have seeped into the zeitgeist, with pretty much every tv program has mentioned it in some form.

3. All our participation has certainly kept the TV show going, excellent viewership, ratings and media sales all helped keep that very expensive machinery going.

4. This is a good one...I will think on this a bit.


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Hi, Stephanie, and welcome!

1. I don't participate in westeros.org.

2. I think the massive online presence across various websites and other social media platforms has likely influenced how and where shows are marketed.

3. I think online communities have encouraged the growth of the popularity of the show.

4. I think the social media industry has been influenced. Fan communities for book or television shows have tended to be more on the fringe in the past. The online presence of Game of Thrones fan communities has become so prevalent, there was just an article about them in the Wall Street Journal.

Good luck with your project!



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1. I've actually tended to participate more in "detractor" site iswintercoming.com - I found IWC after being cussed out of it on the internet by "superfan" and GRRM associate Linda Antonsson. (Turns out her bad behaviour is nothing new! starkalypse.com/post/38793074715/get-your-cunt-stained-fingers-off-my-mush-the)

2. Me personally? I don't think I've influenced anything. I think mainstream media isn't all that interested in fan communities - they usually go with the lazy option of picking out a well known "superfan" for commentary, whose views may or not may not representative of broader communities. Maybe also picking up on fan theories.

3. Fan communities have definitely helped to build the buzz around the show

4. I suppose online publications/news and entertainment outlets monitor fan communities to some extent for content creation purposes. TV has also created discussion shows (like Sky's Thronecast for GOT or Talking Dead for The Walking Dead) to possibly try to build that sense of community. Not sure how successful they are... I've actually never watched Thronecast because zzzzz.

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stephaniehaugaard wrote:

Hello my name is Stephanie Haugaard and I am a college student who is doing research on fandom and how fandom has influenced media industries.  I was wondering if you could help me out by answering a couple of questions. This will only be used as a college project and privacy will be protected. For those participating in this interview please answer these questions by Monday May 2, 2016 at 4pm. Thank you. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

1. What is your main area of participation on westeros.org and/or A Forum of Ice and Fire?

2. How do you think you have influenced media industries through your participation in westeros.org and/or other fandom community participations such as Comic Con?

3. How do you think your participation influenced the progress and success of Game of Thrones?

4.  What media industry or industries do you think have been influenced by your participation in these fan communities?

 

 1)  I went on once and asked Linda if she liked it fast or slow.  Been banned ever since. 

2) I think I have made this community a sexier place.  Honestly, there are a bunch of nerds that participate in these forums.  

3) GoT would be successful with or without my participation or influence. However, a kraken would only be a sea monster if not for Fleabottom. 

4) Snapchat for sure.  I have snapped cock shots to almost every member here.  

 


Hint: one of these is a lie



-- Edited by Rygar on Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 06:55:29 AM

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Hi guys,

I just wanted to say that I am truly grateful your help in this project. It was a success and it really helped to prove my argument. Aside from getting my project done, I learned a lot about fandom and how it influenced the media industries weather it was a big influence or not. 

Once again thank you so much for your help. I will be sticking around to participate and learn more about Game of Thrones.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Haugaard



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Oh, I didn't get a chance to participate!

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Oh its ok Cary Storm, even though the project is over, if you want to answer the questions I will be happy to hear your opinion.smile



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I wonder how you labelled Ry's answer

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1. I occasionally visit the wiki to get information about characters I've forgotten about. I have never had an account there.

2. I think fandom has influenced things like the hiring of particular actors such as Indira Varma and Alexander Siddig

3. I think the sites I've been involved in are heard by the producers, and the fact that I contribute and share on Twitter, encouragin others to read and share.

4. Social media industries most definitely. Anachronistic fashion....

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Thank you for your answers. I really enjoyed reading your answers.



-- Edited by stephaniehaugaard on Thursday 5th of May 2016 12:08:09 AM

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Hi Dolan,

I was not able to include it in my project, my primary reason was because though he answered my questions, the part of making the forum a sexier place and the answer to the first question, I don't think it would have been appropriate for the paper itself. Although, I did find his answers interesting.



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stephaniehaugaard wrote:

1. What is your main area of participation on westeros.org and/or A Forum of Ice and Fire?

2. How do you think you have influenced media industries through your participation in westeros.org and/or other fandom community participations such as Comic Con?

3. How do you think your participation influenced the progress and success of Game of Thrones?

4.  What media industry or industries do you think have been influenced by your participation in these fan communities?

 

 1. Westeros.org is the marketing arm of GURM Inc. run by a Cubano nitwit and an overt racist. For some reason, Martin associates with them. Probably because they know where the bodies are buried. I am a card carrying member of iswintercoming.com (featured in The New Yorker a few years ago). Often, when Martin bitches about internet trolls, the small and vocal minority that despise him, or his Detractors, he is specifically talking about iswintercoming. He is just too big a coward to mention us by name.

2. Westeros.org hasn't influenced anything. No one cares what happens there, they can barely keep the site running because of the malware-infested ads that plaster the site. The memes of Martin doing everything under the sun except write the books that you see on Conan, South Park, etc. have their genesis in sites like "Finish the Book, George", Something Awful, and the aforementioned and totally awesome iswintercoming.

 

3. No.

 

4. Pop culture has definitely been influenced by people like me. See #2 above. As to specific industries ... Second Life has had a serious uptick in traffic the last few years. I like to think I had something to do with that.



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Well, shit.

The vocal minority shut out again.

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These are the forces of hegemony ignoring the voice of the oppressed as always.

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Hi Atreyu,

Thank you for your answers I learned a lot from them.

 

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Dolan wrote:

These are the forces of hegemony ignoring the voice of the oppressed as always.

 stephanie, don't listen to Dolan. He is a known Troll™. 



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Cary Storm, its ok I'm not offended.



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-- Edited by Atreyu on Thursday 5th of May 2016 01:54:06 PM

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One of the biggest complaints us leal fans have is how Martin's writing has devolved into RenFaire argot and such criticism, no matter how gently put, often leads to getting banned from Westeros.org.

But wait!

 

I guess they need to ban Anne Groell (Martin's editor) too.



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RY! If no 1 is not true I will be heartbroken!

And I see someone is again off topic.

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Stephanie don't listen to Cary, he's a known agent of the Military-Industrial Complex trying to infiltrate the young minds and deceive them from the oppressive reality of the Western Neoliberal Agenda.

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Ok you guys had your fun and Steph got her answers, locking now.

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