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Fans\u2019 information activities and their approach to the information needs of both like-minded and dissenting community members reveal insights about how contemporary people exchange information and build social connections and boundaries within online communities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Focusing on a typical online fandom community \u2013 that surrounding popular Chinese musical actor Ayanga \u2013 this study used unobtrusive observation of 56 fans on the Weibo social media platform and sequential semi-structured interviews with 22 individual fans.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Fans share their interpretation-centered emotions, rationales, fanworks and summarizations with assenters, while arguing with dissenters about how their own interpretations are the \u201ccorrect\u201d ones. 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