Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (Digital Formations)
By Paul Booth.
Description
This book re-evaluates the way we examine today’s digital media environment. By looking at how popular culture uses different digital technologies, Digital Fandom bolsters contemporary media theory by introducing new methods of analysis. Using the exemplars of alternate reality gaming and fan studies, this book takes into account a particular «philosophy of playfulness» in today’s media in order to establish a «new media studies». Digital Fandom augments traditional studies of popular media fandom with descriptions of the contemporary fan in a converged m...
ISBN(s)
1433110709, 9781433110702
