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Title Television, social media, and fan culture / edited by Alison F. Slade, Amber J. Narro, and Dedria Givens-Carroll
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 404 pages)
Contents The new network: how social media is changing and saving television / Ryan Cassella -- Spoiler alert: understanding television enjoyment in the social media era / Benjamin Brojakowski -- Rhetorical strengths & limitations of interactivity for activism in the Stewart and Colbert universe / Christopher A. Medjesky -- Fandom communication in a mediated age: the use of Twitter and blogs for dissent practices among National Basketball Association (NBA) fans / Corey Jay Liberman, Michael Plugh and Brian Geltzeiler -- What types of #sportsfans use social media? the role of team identity formation and spectatorship motivation on self-disclosure during a live sport broadcast / Shaughan A. Keaton, Nicholas M. Watanabe & Brody J. Ruihley -- The online community: fan response of community's unlikely fifth season / Matthew Collins and Danielle M. Stern -- Game(s) of fandom: the hyperlink labyrinths that paratextualize Game of thrones fandom / Garret Castleberry -- Be original: examining fan comments on A & E's Duck dynasty facebook page after the Robertson suspension / Michel M. Haigh -- The parents have the dream, but the kids are in the nightmare: digital interactivity, toddlers & tiaras viewers, and social networking sites / Leandra H. Hernandez -- Zombie fans, second screen, and television audiences: redefining parasociality as technoprosociality in AMC's #talkingdead / Sabrina Pasztor and Jenny Ungbha Korn -- Memes, tweets, and props: how fans cope when shows go off the air / Alane Presswood and Steve Granelli -- So are the days of our tweets: an examination of Twitter use by American daytime serials and their fans / Marsha Ducey -- Army wives connect: Lifetime viewers' everyday lives and fandom converge in online communities / Darcey Morris -- Butter, Facebook, and Paula Deen: examining fans use of social media in crisis / Michel M. Haigh & Shelley Wigley -- Fans can be journalists too: a look at fan interaction with HBO's The newsroom / Julia E. Largent & Jason Roy Burnett -- It's bigger on the inside: fandom, social media, and Doctor Who / Krystal Fogle -- Television-inspired cosplay and social media / Laura Kane and William E. Loges -- Who killed @thelaurapalmer? Twitter as a performance space for Twin peaks fan fiction / Kathryn L. Lookadoo and Ted M. Dickinson -- Fifty years of The man from U.N.C.L.E.: how the ever-changing media sustained and shaped one of the oldest fan communities / Cynthia W. Walker -- Managing multiscreen / Daniel Faltesek
Summary Social media has brought about a revolution in fan culture, from fan uprisings to save programs to groups and pages dedicated to mourning lost programs and characters. This edited collection examines how fans use social media in regard to television programming, characters, narrative, and various types of interactions, as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Television viewers -- Social aspects
Television programs -- Social aspects
Online social networks -- Social aspects
Fans (Persons) -- Social aspects
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Online social networks -- Social aspects
Television programs -- Social aspects
Television viewers -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Slade, Alison, 1977- editor.
Narro, Amber J., editor
Givens-Carroll, Dedria, 1960- editor.
LC no. 2021677711
ISBN 9781498506175
1498506178