Lacasa Adolescent Fans

Practices, Discourses, Communities
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4331-5826-1
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Spanisch, 272 Seiten, Web PDF

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lacasa, Pilar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).