Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic; Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781498506168
Subjects: Television viewers; Television programs; Online social networks; Fans (persons)
Description: The new network: how social media is changing and saving television / Ryan Cassella -- Spoiler alert: understanding television enjoyment in the social media era / Benjamin Brojakowski -- Rhetorical strengths & limitations of interactivity for activism in the Stewart and Colbert universe / Christopher A. Medjesky -- Fandom communication in a mediated age: the use of Twitter and blogs for dissent practices among National Basketball Association (NBA) fans / Corey Jay Liberman, Michael Plugh and Brian Geltzeiler -- What types of #sportsfans use social media? the role of team identity formation and spectatorship motivation on self-disclosure during a live sport broadcast / Shaughan A. Keaton, Nicholas M. Watanabe & Brody J. Ruihley -- The online community: fan response of community's unlikely fifth season / Matthew Collins and Danielle M. Stern -- Game(s) of fandom: the hyperlink labyrinths that paratextualize Game of thrones fandom / Garret Castleberry --^

Be original: examining fan comments on A & E's Duck dynasty facebook page after the Robertson suspension / Michel M. Haigh -- The parents have the dream, but the kids are in the nightmare: digital interactivity, toddlers & tiaras viewers, and social networking sites / Leandra H. Hernandez -- Zombie fans, second screen, and television audiences: redefining parasociality as technoprosociality in AMC's #talkingdead / Sabrina Pasztor and Jenny Ungbha Korn -- Memes, tweets, and props: how fans cope when shows go off the air / Alane Presswood and Steve Granelli -- So are the days of our tweets: an examination of Twitter use by American daytime serials and their fans / Marsha Ducey -- Army wives connect: Lifetime viewers' everyday lives and fandom converge in online communities / Darcey Morris -- Butter, Facebook, and Paula Deen: examining fans use of social media in crisis / Michel M. Haigh & Shelley Wigley --^

Fans can be journalists too: a look at fan interaction with HBO's The newsroom / Julia E. Largent & Jason Roy Burnett -- It's bigger on the inside: fandom, social media, and Doctor Who / Krystal Fogle -- Television-inspired cosplay and social media / Laura Kane and William E. Loges -- Who killed @thelaurapalmer? Twitter as a performance space for Twin peaks fan fiction / Kathryn L. Lookadoo and Ted M. Dickinson -- Fifty years of The man from U.N.C.L.E.: how the ever-changing media sustained and shaped one of the oldest fan communities / Cynthia W. Walker -- Managing multiscreen / Daniel Faltesek