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Exploiting Fandom : How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans /

As more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, these industry invitations for fan participation indicate not greater fan power...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stanfill, Mel, 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Fandom's normativity: assuming and recruiting the socially dominant fan subject
  • The fandom menace straightens up and flies white: failed normativity to redemption
  • Consumption and the management of desire
  • The long arm of (beliefs about) the law
  • Fandom and/as labor
  • Enclosing fandom: labors of love, exploitation, and consent
  • Conclusion: two futures of fandom.