Courtney Lazore
Courtney is a writer, editor, and independent researcher with special interests in BTS Studies, fandom, media, and Korean history and culture. She currently manages her own website dedicated to BTS titled "The BTS Effect" and copyedits for The R3 Journal. She is also a founding member of the Bangtan Scholars network, and previously served for five years as the Editor-in-Chief of The Kraze Magazine. She holds a BA in History (focus on East Asia) and an MA in English. She also obtained a TESOL certificate and a certificate in Professional Editing, as well as completed a four-year Korean language program. Currently, Courtney is working on a certificate in Research Ethics.
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Before exploring BTS and ARMY’s connection through care, I briefly cover the ethics of care as a moral theory centered on meeting needs and the importance of human relationships. Next, I explore the idea of BTS as exemplars of an ethic of care through their words and actions towards ARMY, each other, and society. Whether it's centering their gratefulness towards fans during speeches, offering comfort via lyrics, participating in charitable campaigns, or supporting each other, BTS meticulously infuse care into their public behaviors.
Following this discussion, I examine how ARMY mirrors BTS's example of care ethics through fan activities, focusing on how ARMY exhibit care towards other ARMY, BTS, themselves, and the world. Some examples to be covered include observed ARMY interactions with new fans, responses to BTS's content, and ARMY charity efforts. The presentation also highlights the ARMY project/help groups that have emerged in response to the perceived non-BTS-related needs of other ARMY.
Throughout BTS’ conceptual journey from 2013 to the present, trials and anxieties are brought to the surface, contemplated, and resolved. Within their lyrics, music videos, and fictional Bangtan Universe, universal themes of wandering youth, school, temptation, love, and self-development are amplified by related themes seen in works of literature and psychology. These influences help BTS tap into a form of bibliotherapy, a creative art therapy that uses literature to promote healing. A close examination of BTS’ work reveals how BTS engages its fanbase with a cohesive cross-platform narrative that effectively helps fans explore their own anxieties and learn to heal.
In my proposed presentation, I will interpret BTS’ conceptual narratives and themes within the context of works by Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, and Erich Fromm. I will also apply the theory of bibliotherapy to explain how BTS’ narrative succeeds in helping fans cope with anxieties and pain. To illustrate impacts on the fandom, I will include data from a brief fandom survey.
*Note: This paper was presented at the 2020 BTS Conference in London. It is currently submitted for publication, so no file has been uploaded.
Before exploring BTS and ARMY’s connection through care, I briefly cover the ethics of care as a moral theory centered on meeting needs and the importance of human relationships. Next, I explore the idea of BTS as exemplars of an ethic of care through their words and actions towards ARMY, each other, and society. Whether it's centering their gratefulness towards fans during speeches, offering comfort via lyrics, participating in charitable campaigns, or supporting each other, BTS meticulously infuse care into their public behaviors.
Following this discussion, I examine how ARMY mirrors BTS's example of care ethics through fan activities, focusing on how ARMY exhibit care towards other ARMY, BTS, themselves, and the world. Some examples to be covered include observed ARMY interactions with new fans, responses to BTS's content, and ARMY charity efforts. The presentation also highlights the ARMY project/help groups that have emerged in response to the perceived non-BTS-related needs of other ARMY.
Throughout BTS’ conceptual journey from 2013 to the present, trials and anxieties are brought to the surface, contemplated, and resolved. Within their lyrics, music videos, and fictional Bangtan Universe, universal themes of wandering youth, school, temptation, love, and self-development are amplified by related themes seen in works of literature and psychology. These influences help BTS tap into a form of bibliotherapy, a creative art therapy that uses literature to promote healing. A close examination of BTS’ work reveals how BTS engages its fanbase with a cohesive cross-platform narrative that effectively helps fans explore their own anxieties and learn to heal.
In my proposed presentation, I will interpret BTS’ conceptual narratives and themes within the context of works by Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, and Erich Fromm. I will also apply the theory of bibliotherapy to explain how BTS’ narrative succeeds in helping fans cope with anxieties and pain. To illustrate impacts on the fandom, I will include data from a brief fandom survey.
*Note: This paper was presented at the 2020 BTS Conference in London. It is currently submitted for publication, so no file has been uploaded.