<i>Glee</i>Fandom and Twitter: Something New, or More of the Same Old Thing?

Wood, Megan M.; Baughman, Linda

doi:10.1080/10510974.2012.674618

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“…Wood and Baughman (2012) closely examined the use of Twitter by the Glee fan community: they paid specific attention to the role-playing activity that some fans engage in by setting up and maintaining user accounts for the fictional characters on the show. These accounts enabled users to engage in a process of 'narrative augmentation' (extending, or giving greater detail to the plotlines as they aired); others portrayed entirely imaginary characters who would then 'play', and interact with other users, in this augmented narrative.…”

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Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Highfield¹,

Harrington²,

Bruns

2013

Information, Communication & Society

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Amongst the most prominent uses of Twitter is its role in the discussion of widely televised events: Twitter's own statistics for 2011, for example, list major entertainment spectacles (the MTV Music Awards and the BET Awards) and sports matches (the UEFA Champions League final and the FIFA Women's World Cup final) amongst the events generating the most tweets per second during the year. During such major media events, Twitter is used most predominantly as a technology of fandom: it serves as a backchannel to television and other streaming audiovisual media, enabling users offer their own running commentary on the universally shared media text of the event as it unfolds live. This article examines the use of Twitter as a technology for the expression of shared fandom in the context of a major, internationally televised annual media event: the Eurovision Song Contest. Our analysis draws on comprehensive data sets for the 'official' event hashtags, #eurovision, #esc, and #sbseurovision. Using innovative methods that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to the analysis of Twitter data sets containing several hundreds of thousands, overall patterns of participation to discover how audiences express their fandom throughout the event are examined. Such analysis is able to provide a unique insight into the use of Twitter as a technology for fandom and for what in cultural studies research is called 'audiencing': the public performance of belonging to the distributed audience for a shared media event. The work points to Twitter as an important new medium facilitating the connection and communion of fans.

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Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Highfield¹,

Harrington²,

Bruns

2013

Information, Communication & Society

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“…However, despite the interest elicited by users' feedback, 'few [studies] investigate how consumer use of social media networks function as a platform to conduct the same type of entertainment-enriching practices' (Wood and Baughman, 2012: 333). Thus, many of the studies carried out in this field are limited to the exploration of comments on a particular fiction in only a single social media platform (Booth, 2008;Vassallo, 2012;Wood and Baughman, 2012), forums (Knaggs, 2011;Williams, 2010Williams, , 2015, blogs (Hadas, 2013) or fansites (Webb et al, 2012). Due to the lack of in-depth studies exploring the social audience generated by Spanish TV fiction programmes in the incipient years of the convergence of the Internet and TV in Spain, this paper aims to offer a very first overview of this phenomenon.…”

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Self-identity disclosure in TV Fandom. Analysing the comments posted by Spanish female fans and community managers

Lacalle¹,

Mariño²

2017

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“…In contrast to Wood and Baughman's (2012) study of Glee fans, our article focuses on Twitter accounts that represent characters from a show that is no longer in production. As such, while it may help boost DVD sales and Netflix views, this practice is less clearly tied to ongoing promotional efforts.…”

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“…Moreover, because these TWW fans act out how they imagine the characters' lives may be now, the boundaries and 'rules' of the original diegesis have already been destabilized. Thus, building on Wood and Baughman's (2012) work, our analysis will consider how different TWW fans negotiate opportunities and constraints associated with their particular source text, with the established norms of the fan community, and with Twitter as a medium.…”

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Continuing The West Wing in 140 characters or less: Improvised simulation on Twitter

Bore

Hickman

2013

Journal of Fandom Studies, The

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continuing The West Wing in 140 characters or less: Improvised simulation on twitter aBstract Sharing some of the findings from a study of fans tweeting as characters from US TV drama The West Wing (NBC, 2000(NBC, -2006, this article uses data from Twitter observation and fan interviews to examine how participants negotiated the structures of Twitter through this activity. In particular, we consider what implications that negotiation has for the resulting fan text; for how participants perform fandom through this medium; and for how they perceive the value of their fan practice. Through this investigation, the article demonstrates some of the ways in which Twitter facilitates and constrains articulations of audience engagement.In this article, we contribute to the existing body of research on creativity in online fandom by drawing attention to fan activity on social networking systems. Sharing some of the findings from a study of fans tweeting as characters from American TV drama The West Wing (TWW) (Sorkin, 1999(Sorkin, -2006, our analysis uses data from Twitter observation and fan interviews to explore how participants negotiated the structures of Twitter through their performances.

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GleeFandom and Twitter: Something New, or More of the Same Old Thing?

Cited by 45 publications

References 11 publications

Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Self-identity disclosure in TV Fandom. Analysing the comments posted by Spanish female fans and community managers

Continuing The West Wing in 140 characters or less: Improvised simulation on Twitter

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