How journalists can capitalize on anti-journalistic hate

The study “Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists” by Jane Yeahin Pyo from University of Illinois interviewed 40 South Korean journalists who had experienced harassment and hateful expressions and how they capitalized on this hate. Drawing from fan scholarship on anti-fans like Gray’s (2003) insight that haters, like fans, amass immense … Continued