Tune in, Log On Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community |
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| Author:
| Baym, Nancy K. |
| Series title: | Technology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7619-1649-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $153.00 |
Book Description:
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Tune In, Log Out 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 non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.
Tune In, Log Out 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 non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.