OPINION
Cultural Anime-tions: Survey aims to see if the Internet makes a difference in regard to anime
By Kirsten Lindsay | Oct. 13, 2014I put out a survey on Facebook recently, asking how people in decades past bonded over anime if there was no technological middle man. Does the internet even make a difference? The point was to see the relationship between anime fans and the Internet, and the connection they felt to others because of the Internet. I got varied answers to the questions I asked, but one answer remained constant: even though fandoms have always existed, it was the Internet that gave rise to huge, world-wide fandoms.
