Rock Music Groupies, Fandom Hierarchy, and Gender Resistance in a Subcultural Social Media Community in China
The thesis focuses on the combination of the rock groupie subculture and online community. It aims to explore how groupie, as an extreme form of a fan, uses subcultural capital to shape the fandom hierarchy in an online community and how social media play the role in groupies' online participation and gender resistance towards gender stereotypes rooted in rock culture in China. To better explo
