Research on Interactive Development Between User Participation and UGC Output Within Fan Community Atmosphere
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Fan communities; User participation behaviors; UGC content production; Interactive development; Participatory culture.Abstract
Fan communities have gone from being the recipients of information to cultural spaces for the joint creation and sharing of content and emotions. At the same time, daily use by users and the creation of user-generated content form a feedback loop. This paper will explore the atmosphere of the fan community, investigate how the process of user participation has developed into continuous content creation, and examine the reverse shaping effect of content production on the will to participate. The three levels of behaviour in the fan community participation behavior are: information reception, social interaction and content creation. Each level of behaviour accumulates in the emotional atmosphere, identity structure and norm system of the community, completing the transition from the consumption end to the production end through the paths of emotional mobilisation, identity reinforcement and creation transformation; large-scale UGC output reduces the participation threshold by increasing the visibility and cohesion of the community, thus forming a circular reinforcing effect. The Platform's technical architecture is both a support and a bottleneck at this time. This study offers a process analysis of the collective content creation by fan communities in the digital age and provides a reference for the cultivation of community operation ecology.
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