The study had four major objectives: (1) to advance the theoretical notion of brand community; (2) to search for evidence of its existence; (3) to discover some of the manners, mechanisms, and particularities of brand communities; and (4) to situate these findings within the broader sociological, media, and consumer literatures. To these ends, our study had two phases: (1) a face‐to‐face component conducted in Fairlawn and surrounding environs, and (2) a phase conducted entirely in environments of computer‐mediated communication