Resources

"One thing is certain: ARMY is a diverse fandom, not just in the racial and cultural sense, but in every way you can think of (age, genders, passions, professions, and so on.) It is thanks to this diversity that ARMY has managed to develop these spaces that give other BTS fans safe places to debate, have fun, rediscover themselves, and learn, all while motivated by the band’s messages of respect, empathy, love, and resilience."

This article analyzes BTS's 2015 music video for the song 'Dope' and argues that K-pop music videos draw on establilsiehd genre conventions to facilitate the global commercialization of the artists.

This article describes how fandom organization on visibly hierarchical social media platforms differs from rhizomatic social media platforms. It discusses how Reddit’s hierarchical structure controls the flow of information into digital Anglophone K-pop fandoms.

BTS’s Japanese studio album, Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey, was released on July 14, 2020. It includes Japanese versions of songs from three previous albums, as well as four new, original Japanese tracks: ‘Intro: Calling,’ the lead single ‘Stay Gold,’ ‘Your eyes tell,’ and ‘Outro: The Journey.’ And the previously released 2019 single ‘Lights’ is also included. Those tracks, and more, are the subjects of the talk.

With interviews from fans, this article takes a look at how ARMY and other fans are living through the pandemic.