Interpersonal culture on the Internet : television, the Internet, and the making of a community
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Interpersonal culture on the Internet : television, the Internet, and the making of a community
（Mellen studies in sociology, v. 40）
Edwin Mellen Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-281) and index
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This book is a community formation narrative, adding to our comon database of emergent community practice on the Internet. "Community" is a highly contested concept, and in the milieu of mass media, it is even more highly fraught. The book is a community formation narrative, adding to our common database of emergent community practice on the Internet. The book bolsters our understandings of the substantive processes involved, particularly those of boundary formation, spatial dimensions of communities, and how communities are always both embedded and emerging entities. Finally, it deals with the question of how seamless and/or disruptive the new technology of the Internet is vis-a-vis our traditional practices of community formation and maintenance. We are interested in a problem with communities based in media fandoms. Eventually, the artist will quit making music, the movie will cease to have sequels, or the television show will get cancelled. What happens to these communities when their basis of interest goes away? Is the bond of community enough to keep them together? Why do people fracture into other groups? Why do some hold on to the one-for-all-all-for-one mentality?
Finally, do people find themselves gravitating toward friends they would have chosen offline, or do they stick by the friends they made in the community, who would not ordinarily be their type? In the last couple of years of working with this community, the ways in which one gauges when a community ends, and when it merely morphs into some other kind of interpersonal phenomenon have been at the forefront of our research. The book is ethnographic in method, and deals with community concepts such as networks, geography, boundaries, and politics.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Vampire slaying on TV, the Internet, and ethnography - Come as You Aren't? 1. The Place of Networks, Networks in Place
- 2. Remaking the local and Remaking the locale
- 3. Border Patrol: Rule-Making and Community Boundaries
- 4. Practicing Bronzer Politics: Demanding a voice, Reforming, and Revolting
- 5. The Television Node Revisited - How or When Will The Bronze
- 6. Leave Buffy Behind? Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Illustrations
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