Digital fandom
Subtitle: new media studies
By: Paul Booth
Series: Digital formations -- v. 68
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781433110702; 9781433110719
Description: "This book re-evaluates the way we examine today's 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 today's media in order to establish a "new media studies."" "Digital Fandom augments traditional studies of popular media fandom with descriptions of the contemporary fan in a converged media environment. The book shows how changes in the study of fandom can be applied in a larger scale to the study of new media in general, and formulates new conceptions of traditional media theories." ""In this web 2.0 world, where community and not content is king, the fan marks a new form of interactive subjectivity that deconstructs the usual categories of consumer and producer. Paul Booth's 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. 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 in-depth tour of how fans straddle and traverse the boundary between television and digital media. With a theoretically rich analytic eye, Digital Fandom breaks new ground for the next generation of media scholarship" ---Jason Mittell, Middlebury College, Author of Television & American Culture"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new media studies; title: The ARG metaphor; title: Digital fandom between work and text; title: Intra-textuality and battlestar blogs; title: The narrative database and the web commons; title: Narractivity and spoilers; title: Interreality and the digi-gratis; title: Identity roleplay on MySpace; title: Conclusion: digital fandom, alternate reality games, and demediation.