Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer for the Atlantic, became a citizen of the internet for the first time because of the One Direction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being a Directioner is not a part-time job. TBH, it's not even a full-time job. It's a way of life. It's like following a religion ...

When the Internet-culture reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany first encountered One Direction, the British-Irish boy band, she was home for the summer after her freshman year at college. She was sad and sick of ...

Journalist Kaitlyn Tiffany was 19 when she first watched 1D: This is Us, a documentary about the British boy band One Direction. Tiffany came away from the viewing unimpressed; the five boys were kind ...

This story is adapted from Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It, by Kaitlyn Tiffany. Gabrielle Foster had been a fan of One Direction since she was 11 ...

To say that One Directioners are a dedicated fandom would be putting it lightly. Their love has been unconditional, and this was made no clearer than on the internet, where the fandom thrived most.

Fandom comes in many forms. Maybe you save photos of your fave celeb on a Pinterest page, or on your desktop in a special folder. Maybe you write fan fiction. If you’re Jeanne, a 16-year-old Parisian ...

The internet is a universe of its own, home to infinite galaxies of information strange and familiar to the common user. Our mobile devices are the machines we use to navigate these uncharted ...

The untimely and tragic death this week of Liam Payne, one of the members of the wildly popular band One Direction, has brought an outpouring of grief – from family, friends, former bandmates and fans ...

Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer for the Atlantic, became a citizen of the internet for the first time because of the One Direction fandom. In her new book, Everything I Need I Get From You: How ...