Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820471181)

Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X-Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it.

Author: Steve Jones,Rhiannon Bury
ISBN-10: 0820471186
ISBN-13: 9780820471181
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2005
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d