Annotation Many of our current social problems have been attributed to the breakdown or loss of community as a place and to the fragmentation of connections due to an extreme value of individualism in the Western world, particularly in the United States. Not all scholars and res…
Interviews en essays met onder meer machinima producers en uitvoerders over de productie van dit filmgenre.
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
The work provides an introduction to on-line and audience issues through the study of an Internet soap opera fan group composed largely of women. The author shows that women can build good on-line communities, whilst welcoming male participation.
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
"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…
Tune in, log on: soaps, fandom, and online community
The work provides an introduction to on-line and audience issues through the study of an Internet soap opera fan group composed largely of women. The author shows that women can build good on-line communities, whilst welcoming male participation.
This volume aims to cover the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century.
YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. Authors discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in cultur…
Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsroom ethnography, social-network analysis, and online archival research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 'Rebuilding the News', tries…
Cybersounds: essays on virtual music culture
"This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that "people download," Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring …
Cybersounds: essays on virtual music culture
"This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that "people download," Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring …
Radhika Gajjala examines online community formations & subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies & globalization. She concludes that virtual communities are embedded in real life communities & contexts, with human costs.
Radhika Gajjala examines online community formations & subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies & globalization. She concludes that virtual communities are embedded in real life communities & contexts, with human costs.