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Fananalytic is a cross-disciplinary practice that applies data-driven analysis to fans and fan cultures. It blends methods from data science, analytics, fan studies, and digital humanities to understand how fans engage with media properties, create content, form communities, and influence reception and markets.

Common data sources include social media posts, comments, forums, fan wikis, streaming data, and archives of

The approach is used for purposes such as informing marketing and product strategy, guiding platform design

Origins of fananalytic lie in the growth of online communities and computational social science during the

Ethical considerations include privacy, consent, data ownership, and representative sampling. Critics note the risk of overreliance

fan
fiction
or
fan
art.
Techniques
used
range
from
network
analysis
of
fan
communities
and
sentiment
analysis
of
conversations
to
topic
modeling,
time-series
analysis
of
trends,
and
qualitative
interviews
or
ethnography
to
capture
motivations.
and
moderation,
supporting
community
management,
and
contributing
to
scholarly
work
in
areas
like
media
studies
and
cultural
analytics.
2010s,
drawing
on
fan
studies,
market
research,
and
data
analytics.
It
is
not
a
single
standardized
discipline
but
a
set
of
shared
methods
and
questions
that
different
researchers
and
organizations
apply.
on
metrics
that
may
not
reflect
fan
experience
and
the
potential
for
misinterpretation
or
manipulation.
Proponents
emphasize
transparency
about
data
sources,
limitations,
and
respect
for
fan
labor
and
intellectual
property.