A companion to media fandom and fan studies ebook, 2018. A range of ideas has emerged to explore different facets of this growing phenomenon. Fan cultures are examples of participatory cultures. Tena koutou and welcome to media studies 101, the open educational resource for media studies studies in new zealand, australia, and.
Pdf introduction to communication and media studies. Fandom marketing agency work samples and digital marketing case studies. The multi disciplinary nature of fan studies makes the development of a community of scholars sometimes difficult to achieve. New media studies and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Bronies learning english in the digital wild liudmila shafirova, universitat pompeu fabra.
The socalled new media technologies often referred to as web 2. Paul booths digital fandom breaks new ground in the investigation of this subject, demonstrating how it reorganizes and reorients the field of new media studies david j. Through an examination of whedon fandom, the chapter argues that fan labor and fan love are powerful forces that may be exploited and commoditized, or harnessed to destabilize media industry. Drawing on a range of debates from media studies, cultural studies and psychology, duffett argues that fandom is a particular kind of engagement with the power relations of media culture. An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the internet and how digital cultural memory differs radically from printera archiving. Case study of barack obamas 2008 presidential campaign komal h. Mark duffett shows that fan research is an emergent interdisciplinary field with its own key thinkers. Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience.
The subculture of urban global popularculture youth fans is believed to be a resistancesubculture against the hegemony of dominant power. She is a coeditor of the routledge companion to media fan studies. In this completely revised and updated version of digital fandom, paul booth extends his analysis of fandom in the digital environment. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especiallycommissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together.
Affect, desire and emotion in a mediated world soc3062 section. The rocky horror picture show rhps was a motion picture version of a lowbudget sciencefictionhorror musical. Drawing on a range of debates from media studies, cultural studies and psychology, duffett argues that fandom is a particular kind of engagement with the power. This book reevaluates the way we examine todays digital media environment. Some fans revel in the new opportunities presented by digital. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including transformative works and cultures and the journal of fandom studies. Sample lesson plans title author uploaded link pdf manuel rivas lineira, maria 20521 file. This book reevaluates the way we examine todays digital media environment by looking at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, digital fandom bolsters contemporary media theory by introducing new methods of analysis using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular philosophy of playfulness in todays media in. The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form.
Studies on fandom and new literacies have also been concerned with. The journal of fandom studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. Contentsshow select courses add free, open network society courses below. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. An introduction to the cultural phenomenon of fandom simone govender. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom appearing with henry jenkins at comic con and speaking at the fan. Digital memoirs is the journals creative and analytical project. This special issue on fandom in a new media environment invites not only textual analyses of fan. Page for academic positions in new media and digital humanities that begin in 20192020. Committed to openness, the imprint typically releases its titles under a creative commons cc license that lets you read the works online for free. Gunkel, presidential teaching professor, northern illinois university, author of hacking cyberspace and thinking otherwise from blogs to args, wikis to social networking sites, paul booth provides an indepth tour of how fans straddle and traverse the boundary between television and digital media. Welcome to world university which anyone can add to or edit. New media studies is a relatively young academic discipline that explores the intersections of computing, science, the humanities, and the visual and performing arts.
It focuses on the critical exploration, within a wide. Split into four sections, seeing fans analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media through a diverse range of perspectives. Afterword the future of fandom henry jenkins by now, reading mass media coverage as symptomatic of the cultural status of fandom has become a central genre in fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especiallycommissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fastgrowing field. Using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular philosophy of playfulness in. Mapping the bit girl lara croft and new media fandom. This section will take a look at one example of a media fandom, but it might be worth thinking about other fans you know such as sporting fans and see how many of these identity and reception roles they also adopt. A companion to media fandom and fan studies by paul booth. Paul booth is an american media scholar and a professor of digital communication and media arts at depaul university in chicago, illinois. Digital icons aims to construct a collaborative historical narrative that would define use of digital media, including digital gadgets, digital forms of communication and digital practices, in a. Witness the introduction to this collection, which explores some of the contradictions in the ways the mainstream media covers fanspatronizing harry. The digital revolution has had a profound impact upon fandom, empowering and disempowering, blurring the lines between producers and consumers, creating symbiotic relationships between powerful corporations and individual fans, and giving rise to new forms of cultural production.
Transnational solidarities and the love for liverpool fc. Janet murray, a prominent researcher in the discipline, describes this intersection as a single new medium of representation, the digital medium, formed by the braided interplay of technical invention and cultural. A companion to media fandom and fan studies offers scholars and fans an accessible and engaging resource for understanding the rapidly expanding field of fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especiallycommissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled. Please use heading 3 to format the names of schools positions when adding them to the appropriate category below. Fan culture, or fandom, is a term which describes communities built around a shared enjoyment of an aspect of popular culture, such as books, movies, tv shows, bands, sports or sports teams, etc. A companion to media fandom and fan studies wiley online.
Type book authors booth, paul date c2010 publisher peter lang pub place new york, oxford volume digital formations isbn 9781433110702, 9781433110719. With new chapters that focus on the economics of crowdfunding, the playfulness of tumblr, and the hybridity of the fan experience, alongside revised chapters that explore blogs, wikis, and social networking sites, digital fandom 2. With a foreword by matt hills, understanding fandom introduces the whole field. Using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular philosophy of. Its main objective is to facilitate a reflective discussion of the experience of digital media in russia, eurasia and central europe. The routledge companion to media fandom 1st edition. Dislike and hate in the digital age postmillennial pop book 24 melissa a. Exploring football and the growing problem of online abuse.
S uzanne s cott is an assistant professor in the department of radiotelevisionfilm at the university of texas at austin. Although i work at the kinsey institute library and special collection as a graduate archivist and i am receiving the benefits. With new chapters that focus on the economics of crowdfunding, the playfulness of tumblr, and the hybridity. Participatory cultures involve fans acting not only as consumers but also as producers and creators of some form. It uses the works of joss whedon and his robust fan base to consider how active fandom has shifted in the wake of digital technologies and social media. Bronies are adult fans of the animated series my little pony. Media fandom and audience subcultures o n april fools day in 1976 at the waverly theater in greenwich village, new york city, a new film opened to audiences at a special midnight screening. In the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. A companion to media fandom and fan studies offers scholars and fans an accessible and engaging resource for understanding the rapidly expanding. You can also make noncommercial use of the texts without getting. This study, however, found that the subculture given rise to by the urban, global popularculture youth fans of the mortal instruments in indonesia is in opposition to the neogramscian thought which has become the foundation. A companion to media fandom and fan studies mass media. Digital cultural memory and media fandom mit press, 2016 with a professional eye, i was struck by the number of ways that it connected and resonated with my personal life and practice.