Content tagged "fandom"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre, Nancy Baym and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Event: Thursday, April 5, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Nancy Baym
Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media”
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, asks how direct access to fans changes what it means to be an artist.
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Event: Thursday, September 13, 2012 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
Nancy Baym asks, “How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren’t before?”
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Posted by Flourish Klink S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2010
Topics: fan studies, fandom, gender, literature, media, Twatlight, twilight, videoLaugh Out Loud in Real Life: Women’s Humor and Fan Identity
Self-identified fans are not the only group that ought to be examined under the heading of fan studies, where, too, humor is rarely discussed.
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Posted by Xiaochang Li S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2009
Topics: culture, diaspora, drama, east asia, fandom, globalization, media, television, transnationalDis/Locating Audience: Transnational Media Flows and the Online Circulation of East Asian Television Drama
In examining the flourishing online fandom around the circulation of East Asian television drama, however, the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient.
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Posted by CMS/W
Podcast: “Cult Media”
Is it profitable to build a franchise on the intense interest of the few and relying on Long Tail economics?
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Posted by CMS/W
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Fan Labor”
What do we gain by applying a theory of labor to think about the invisible work performed by fans and other consumers within the new media economy?
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Event: Friday, November 16, 2007 - Saturday, November 17, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
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Posted by CMS/W
Henry Jenkins, the “Mud-Wrestling Media Maven from MIT”
CMS co-director Henry Jenkins is the subject of an extensive profile in the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Posted by CMS/W
Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Fan Cultures”
Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere; danah boyd, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley; and Molly Chase, Executive Producer of Cartoon Network New Media.
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Posted by Amulya Gopalakrishnan S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2006
Topics: fandom, globalization, literature, online community, poetry, postcolonialism, South Asia, The Wondering MinstrelsWeb of Words: Poetry, Fandom and Globality
Media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration of English poetry.
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Posted by Henry Jenkins
I WANT MY GEEK TV!
“From a fan’s perspective, Global Frequency was too good to be true.”
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Posted by Cynthia Conti S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2001
Topics: activism, audiences, fandom, feminism, Le Tigre, music, politics“Stepping Up to the Mic”: Le Tigre Strategizes Third Wave Feminist Activism Through Music and Performance
An analysis of the political music band Le Tigre, this thesis explores the strategies for Third Wave feministic activism that Le Tigre creates and pursues through music and performance.