Pilar Lacasa

Adolescent Fans (eBook, PDF)

Practices, Discourses, Communities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Owing to the proliferation of screens and networked culture, young fans have moved beyond being simply media consumers. Today they are content interpreters and creators-living in a remix culture, reconstructing transmedia narratives, and interacting with culture industries. Young fans' relationship to technology has transformed their discourses, interpersonal relationships, and the way they participate in communities. This book delves into these issues, looking at social and cultural approaches to human development to study the identities and activities of fan communities among young people. The book explores communities related to Harry Potter, One Direction, Fortnite, Warhammer, TikTok, and television programs. Drawing on an ethnographic approach and big data analysis, Adolescent Fans demonstrates how digital technology has changed not only fan behavior, but also research practices used to understand what it means to be a young fan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Spanisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433158261
• Artikelnr.: 65842419

Autorenporträt

Pilar Lacasa is Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of Alcalá, Spain. She has been a visiting Research Professor in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT (USA), at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT (Melbourne, Australia), and at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. She is the author of Learning and Virtual Worlds (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Searching for Teenage Fans
Teenage Fans around One Direction and Harry Styles
Fans
Cultural Tools in the Harry Potter Universe
Fandom, Micro-Celebrities and New Media
Reinventing Images and Fan Discourses
Fans in a Multiplatform Society
Adolescent Boys as Fans in the Warhammer Community
Fans
Productive Communities around Fortnite
Conclusions: Adolescent Fans and Digital Lives
References
Index.