{"id":882,"date":"2016-12-15T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=882"},"modified":"2016-12-15T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:46:43","slug":"ellen-king-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/ellen-king-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CUE: The word &#8216;superfan&#8217; tends to be surrounded with a negative connotation, with most people associating the term with the idea of over-obsessed teenagers. Sean and Cali and two superfans of Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato and Fifth Harmonry respectively. Ellen King takes a look into their lives to see how their idols have changed their lives for the better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qWbG9olnKjg\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/qWbG9olnKjg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN: &#8220;Superfans, obviously&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OUT: &#8220;&#8230;my hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DUR: 9&#8217;39&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The piece mainly focuses on the experiences of Sean Gallen, a Lady Gaga superfan, and how the introduction of Gaga has influenced him in the way he is now as it was something that I had always found interesting since I had first known him. Other contributions came from Cali Jeferies and Professor Tuomas Eerola from Durham University, who specialises in research on music and cognitive behaviour and is who I based most of my research off of.<\/p>\n<p>Sean and Cali&#8217;s interviews took place at their university accomodation in London and Nottingham respectively, whereas Professor Eerola&#8217;s took place over Skype. Sean and Cali are both friends from school, so contacting them was easy as I just messaged them on Facebook and discussed everything over that. However Professor Eerola took a bit more work as I emailed and called him a few times with no response, but when I tweeted him a few days ago he responded straight away and did an interview with me the next day. All images have either been taken by myself or I&#8217;ve had permission to use them from their social medias which I have credited at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUE: The word &#8216;superfan&#8217; tends to be surrounded with a negative connotation, with most people associating the term with the idea of over-obsessed teenagers. Sean and Cali and two superfans of Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato and Fifth Harmonry respectively&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-storytelling-archive","category-second-year-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}