Digital fandom : new media studies

Author(s)

• Booth, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Digital fandom : new media studies

Paul Booth

（Digital formations, v. 68）

Peter Lang, c2010

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book re-evaluates the way we examine today's digital media environment. By looking at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, Digital Fandom bolsters contemporary media theory by introducing new methods of analysis. Using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular "philosophy of playfulness" in today's media in order to establish a "new media studies". Digital Fandom augments traditional studies of popular media fandom with descriptions of the contemporary fan in a converged media environment. The book shows how changes in the study of fandom can be applied in a larger scale to the study of new media in general, and formulates new conceptions of traditional media theories.

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Details

• NCID: BB05523448
• ISBN:
  • 9781433110702
• LCCN: 2010014256
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 231 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM851
  • DC22 : 303.48/33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Digital media -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Fans (Persons) -- Psychology
  • LCSH : Online social networks -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA57371221