The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte. We analyzed posts between 2018 and 2022 with the aim of investigating the evolution of the account following the change of Conte’s role from the office of Prime Minister—that he held as an outsider—to the more politicized role of leader of the Five-Star Movement. Our results suggest that, although in the first phase @lebimbedigiuseppeconte could not be regarded as a standard type of political fandom, its evolution shows that also a fanpage born with no apparent political goal and a vocation for entertaining may become a platform for the diffusion of political contents.

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参与粉丝圈和政治：Instagram 上朱塞佩·孔戴 (Giuseppe Conte) 粉丝的案例

本文重点讨论政治狂热现象及其对公民政治参与的潜在影响。特别是，我们的研究旨在为讨论对政治领袖的在线粉丝式依恋的可能类型做出贡献。我们的案例研究是 Instagram 帐户 @lebimbedigiuseppeconte，这是一个庆祝意大利前总理朱塞佩·孔戴 (Giuseppe Conte) 的粉丝专页。我们分析了 2018 年至 2022 年期间的帖子，旨在调查孔戴的角色从总理职位（他作为局外人担任）转变为更具政治化的五星级运动领导人角色后该账户的演变。我们的结果表明，虽然在第一阶段@lebimbedigiuseppeconte不能被视为标准类型的政治粉丝圈，但其演变表明，一个没有明显政治目标和娱乐职业的粉丝页面也可能成为传播政治观点的平台。政治内容。