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Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and participatory fandom: mapping new congruencies between the internet and media entertainment culture
Author:
Elana Shefrin
DOI:
10.1080/0739318042000212729
Publication Frequency:
5 issues per year
Published in:
Critical Studies in Media Communication,
Volume
21,
Issue
3
September
2004
, pages 261
- 281
Critical Studies in Media Communication,
Volume
21,
Issue
3
September
2004
, pages 261
- 281
Subjects:
Critical Thinking;
Mass Media & Communication;
Number of References: 63
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Previously published as:
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
(0739-3180)
until 1999
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Abstract
The culture of media entertainment, as exemplified in the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars film franchises, is being infused with new modes of authorship, production, marketing, and consumption that are characterized by Internet fan clubs, online producer-consumer affiliations, and real-world legal controversies over the proprietary ownership of digital bits of information. To analyze these new interactive patterns being employed by two competing media franchises, Bourdieu's theory of cultural production is supplemented with Jenkins's study of participatory fandom. Then, the contested nature of computer-mediated communication is explored using a model that brackets the opposing potentialities of Internet influence on offline society.
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