Tune in, log on
Subtitle: soaps, fandom, and online community
By: Nancy K. Baym.
Series: New media cultures
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Soap operas -- Social aspects -- United States; Soap operas -- Electronic discussion groups
Description: "Nancy K. Baym's Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and nonverbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humor, interpersonal relationships, group norms, and individual identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.