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标题：Editors' Introduction: On toxic fan practices and the new culture wars'
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作者：Proctor, William ; Bridget Kies
期刊名称：Participations
印刷版ISSN：1749-8716
出版年度：2018
卷号：15
期号：1
页码：127
出版社：Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales
摘要：Since at least 2014, the terrain of popular culture has paid host to an uptick in political conflict and quarrel, becoming the battleground on which the new culture wars are being fought. Largely occurring in online territories, this post-millennial spin on the extreme partisan polarities of the 1980s and ’90s, which functioned as a way to repeal the enormous gains won by the 1960s counterculture (Hartman, 2015), has centred the texts of popular culture in its sights. In the Marvel comic book universe, for instance, there have been a spate of character changes that diversify who gets to be a superhero, but these changes have been met with opposing responses, most often viewed in bald binary terms as a conflict between the ‘politically correct’ pro-diversity crowd — commonly referred to as ‘social justice warriors’ (SJWs) — and members of the so-called ‘alt-right’ hell-bent on hijacking progressive shifts in popular culture (if only things were ever quite so simple!). In July 2014, Marvel Comics announced that two of their most prized assets, Thor and Captain