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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"furries"”.
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Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online
… devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are not necessarily fans of specific media properties, but instead often create their own media, including the "fursona," an anthropomorphic animal character to represent oneself in the community. Conducting empirical research through …
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Breaking Down Stereotypes: A Look at the Performance of Self-Identity Within the Furry Community
… gained considerable exposure in the mass media. Furries are individuals who have an interest in anthropomorphic animals and are occasionally portrayed in the media as a socially or sexually deviant subculture. Through an ethnographic study of a local furry group, I discovered that this portrait …
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Keeping the Magic: Fursona Identity and Performance in the Furry Fandom
… take on an anthropomorphic identity (what furries call a fursona) while bridging local and global groups through communication technologies. For this folklore project I conducted ethnographic field works interviews with the Bowling Green, Kentucky fur group. I also build off of the …