Fractured Fandoms - Contentious Communication in Fan Communities

This book explores the communication issues and power dynamics in fandoms and fan communities to understand the problems fans experience when they interact with one another. It uses fractured fandoms as the case study to consider how these problems relate to all areas of people's lives.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Dark Side of Fandom
Chapter 2: Communication, Power, and Fractured Fandoms
Chapter 3: Identity, Situationality, and the Fractures
Chapter 4: Harassments Arising from Fractured Fandoms
Chapter 5: The Negative Impacts of Fractured Fandoms
Chapter 6: The Positives Emerging from Fractures
Chapter 7: Resolving Fractured Fandoms
Chapter 8: Beyond Fractured Fandoms
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard is associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University.

Summary

This book explores the communication issues and power dynamics in fandoms and fan communities to understand the problems fans experience when they interact with one another. It uses fractured fandoms as the case study to consider how these problems relate to all areas of people’s lives.

Product details

• Authors: CarrieLynn D Reinhard, Carrielynn D. Reinhard
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498552561
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5256-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Communication Perspectives in; Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture; Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries