The Fandom Effect (Week 0 – Preliminary Data)

15 Sep 2010 No Comments

by Nikkiin tv Tags: , ,

Preliminary data is in!  Well, actually, that’s kind of a lie – it’s been in for a few hours now and I just realised that maybe I should post it.  Any unlisted categories, such as FF.Net, simply don’t have data.  For obvious reasons.

The Highest

Category Show Network Numbers
Fansites Body of Proof ABC 2
LJ Comms The Whole Truth ABC 1
Wikipedia The Event NBC 876
Official Forum Posts Outsourced NBC 117
Unofficial Forums Members No Ordinary Family ABC 21

Analysis/Commentary/Additional data after the jump!

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The Fandom Effect (Week 0)

15 Sep 2010 8 Comments

by Nikkiin tv Tags: ,

So, the other day, I was thinking (probably during class when I should have been paying attention) about fandom size and viewership if there is any relationship between the two.  Yes, yes, I know – a lame and weird topic, but this is me.  When am I not lame and weird?  Especially with fandom (and numbers).

Long story short, I’ve decided that this season I am going to keep track of the fandom activity of new series as well as the viewership (which I’ve followed for two years over on TV by the Numbers – I love that blog) and see if there is any correlation between the two.  As an added bonus, since I’m limiting myself to the new series, I can also add in the cancellation factor and see if that has any relation to the fandom.

Like any good scientist, now that I’ve given you the abstract and introduction, I’m going to move onto the hypothesis. More