| Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Other), Bury, Rhiannon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820471186 ISBN-13: 9780820471181 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.88 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - History | North American |
| Dewey: 004.693 |
| LCCN: 2004007400 |
| Series: Digital Formations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 242 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X-Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it. |