Full Description
Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The contributors explore a diverse array of television personalities, shows, media outlets, and fan activities in their analysis, including: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Paula Deen; Community, Game of Thrones, Duck Dynasty, Toddlers and Tiaras, Talking Dead, Breaking Bad, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army Wives, The Newsroom, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; as well as ESPN's TrueHoop Network and Yahoo's Ball Don't Lie; and cosplay.
Contents
Chapter 1: The New Network: How Social Media is Changing—and Saving—Television
Ryan Cassella
Chapter 2: Spoiler Alert: Understanding Television Enjoyment in the Social Media Era
Benjamin Brojakowski
Chapter 3: Rhetorical Strengths & Limitations of Interactivity for Activism in the Stewart and Colbert Universe
Christopher A. Medjesky
Chapter 4: Fandom Communication in a Mediated Age: The Use of Twitter and Blogs for Dissent Practices Among National Basketball Association (NBA) Fans
Corey Jay Liberman, Michael Plugh and Brian Geltzeiler
Chapter 5: What Types of #SportsFans use Social Media? The Role of Team Identity Formation and Spectatorship Motivation on Self-Disclosure during a Live Sport Broadcast
Shaughan A. Keaton, Nicholas M. Watanabe & Brody J. Ruihley
Chapter 6: The Online Community: Fan response of Community's Unlikely Fifth Season
Matthew Collins and Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 7: Game(s) of Fandom: The Hyperlink Labyrinths that Paratextualize Game of Thrones Fandom
Garret Ca
