Cyberspaces Of Their Own
Subtitle: Female Fandoms Online (Digital Formations, V. 25)
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780820471181
Subjects: Journalism; Science fiction television pro; Internet - World Wide Web; Computers - Communications / Networking; Women's Studies - General; Computers; Science fiction fans; Computer Books: Web Publishing; Networking - Bulletin Boards; Internet and women; Communication; Science fiction television programs; Electronic discussion groups; Fans (Persons)
Description: "Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X-Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it."--BOOK JACKET.