Essays about: "Kee Lundqvist"

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  1. 1. Stories of Significance : The Process and Practises of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Kee Lundqvist; [2015]
    Keywords : coping theory; production of meaning; virtual anthropology; sherlock; tumblr; fan studies; fan psychology;

    Abstract : Building on professor of psychology Kenneth Pargament’s claim that people actively seek to establish a sense of significance and strive to minimize its loss, this study argues that fans of fictional works continually create a (subjectively seemingly) coherent interpretation of the source text that both builds upon and supports meaningful themes and phenomena found in the text. This, in turn, generates a subjective (though often communally negotiated) sense of significance. READ MORE