{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Digital Literacies and 21st Century Skills","title":" K-Pop Twitter Fandoms and Online Communities (Alina and Ricardo)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1234,"description":"Ricardo and Alina introduce their first “Think of a Bobble” podcast episode and discuss how social media shapes K-pop fandom communities and identity across linguistic barriers. They describe how Twitter’s reduced language barriers enable Korean, American, and other fans to interact, and how intense “stan” culture can become defensive or even dangerous, including doxxing, stalking, and parasocial behavior toward idols. Alina summarizes an article on K-pop stan Twitter as a community of practice where fans interact, learn, share ideas, and form connections. They also review a second article on Twitter as a professional learning community in medical education, using survey findings to illustrate how online communities form around shared purposes and can replace physical learning spaces, especially after COVID.ReferencesMalik, Z., & Haidar, S. (2023). Online community development through social interaction: K-pop stan Twitter as a community of practice. Interactive Learning Environments, 31(2), 733–751. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2020.1805773Zheng, B., & Dallaghan, G. B. (2022). A Twitter-facilitated professional learning community: Online participation, connectedness, and satisfaction. BMC Medical Education, 22, Article 577. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03639-6","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LL2NEn4Z3Nlh9jKE85ZuC_eBI7peYusyf5fVf3kEGOs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81M2Yy/ZTY5MjFiNmExMGRj/MmYwMjk2MWFmNjQ3/ZmZlYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}