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By tracing the development of China’s BL fandom and examining its presence on social media platforms, the study shows how online networks strengthen subcultural groups and help BL fans’ cultural expressions be heard. It also highlights online group ties that shift toward decentralization and conglomeration, reflecting social network services, and it explains how collective identity among fujoshies resists mainstream society.","Sino-US English Teaching, January 2017, Vol. 14, No. 1, 25-29 doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2017.01.004  \nD  \nDAVID PUBLISHING  \nThe Influence of Social Media on Contemporary Subcultural Groups in China: The Case of BL Fandom ∗  \nCHEN Min  \nChina Youth University of Political Studies, Beijing, China  \nSocial media has become the infrastructure of contemporary virtual life and greatly influenced the landscapes ofthe modern culture. By tracking the development of a local subculture in China—BL fandom and analyzing BL fandom on social media, this research argues that social media empowers the subcultural groups and makes the cultural expression of BL fans heard. Meanwhile, the social relationship of online subcultural groups shows the tendency of decentralization and conglomeration, which is typical of social network services. In the interaction between fujoshies through social media, the subcultural groups also develop a collective identity resistant against the mainstream society. The rise of social media leads the contemporary subcultures to a new stage.  \nKeywords: social media, subcultural groups, BL fandom  \nIntroduction  \nSocial media refers to Web 2.0 Internet-based applications that allow people to create and exchange content using digital network technologies (Boyd & Ellison, 2008; Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010) . According to 2012 CCIC report, the number of social media users in China reached 275 million. They mainly engage in the social applications such as QQ, blog, microblog, wechat, and other social network sites such as Post Bar of Baidu, Douban, and Renren. The boom of social media in China in the recent decade makes a lasting influence on Chinese society. Since youth are the main force of virtual community in China, social media affects every aspects of Chinese youth life, including their subcultures. The relationship between the social media and the contemporary Chinese subcultures has been increasingly researched and measured by scholars at home and abroad.  \nChinese youth subcultures emerged in 1980s and developed fast in the new millennium. Its fast development attracted the attention of Chinese scholars. Many scholars consider social media a positive factor for Chinese youth subcultures. MA Zhong-hong (2010), when discussing the relationship between the new media and youth subcultures, argued that the new media brought about changes to the style, content, and forms of youth subcultures, enabled the subculture to have more immediate impacts on the mainstream culture, and therefore put subcultures at a more advantageous position. Hsin Yen Yang (2010), on the other hand, discussed the effects of social media on Japanese drama fans. He noted that the social media drew more attention of these fans to social politics and produced potentials of social transformation. CAI Qi and HUANG Yao-ying (2011)  \n∗ Acknowledgements: The research is supported by the research project of China Youth University of Political Studies “The Influence of Social Media on Contemporary Youth Subcultures”(Serial No.189070823) .  \nCHEN Min, lecturer, M.A., English Department, China Youth University of Political Studies.  \n26 THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CONTEMPORARY SUBCULTURAL GROUPS  \ninvestigated two Chinese social websites, Douban and Renren. They maintained that social media itself was a cradle of youth subcultures in which subcultures grow and spread. On the whole, the scholars hold the social media positively. However, there is little comprehensive research, if not none, on how social media works in a particular Chinese subculture. This research is attempted to analyze a particular Chinese subculture—BL fandom in China and explore the impact of social media on it so as to observe the influence of social media on Chinese youth subcultures more thoroughly.  \nBL Fandom in China  \nBL stands for boys’ love. 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