Rereading Fandom: MySpace Character Personas and Narrative Identification

Booth, Paul

doi:10.1080/15295030802468073

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“…In following these ideas there is a need to move beyond Goffman in order to explicate the way our experience is based on an entangled and intertwined set of selves. This encourages a focus on complexity and fluidity of the shared social reality that is present in any MySpace interaction (see also Booth, 2008). investigations as a way of evidencing a particular culture or phenomenon (Knoblach et al, 2008;Pink, 2007Pink, , 2008.…”

Section: Profile Changing and The Online Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding social network sites: lessons from MySpace

Goodings

2012

Visual Communication

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MySpace.com is an online social network site (SNS) where users build a 'profile page' to communicate with millions of other users all over the globe. MySpace users customise their profile page with words, photographs, pictures, music, biographical information and other visual/textual icons. There are a number of unique practices that are inherent to these new online social spaces that extend from the need to maintain a personal profile. For example, many users will regularly update their profiles with new visual or textual information (a practice that will be identified as 'profile changing'). However, over the last few years MySpace has experienced a decline in terms of the numbers of users that visit the site. This article takes a historical look at the use of MySpace in order to explore some wider issues in online communication practices.Through an empirical analysis of 100 open-access MySpace profiles, this paper will examine the use of SNSs in relation to issues of self, community and wastefulness. This work also addresses the ongoing need to blur the boundaries of visual/textual, online/offline, reality/representation and social/psychological in the way we understand the relationship between human experience and technology. KEY WORDS Mediated

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Section: Profile Changing and The Online Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding social network sites: lessons from MySpace

Goodings

2012

Visual Communication

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“…Hills (2005) considera a natureza cíclica dos fãs, sendo que fãs-consumidores movem-se de um objeto de admiração para outro. Paul Booth (2008) personalidades da mídia, argumentando que a transformação midiática engendra mudanças fundamentais na formação da identidade e, portanto, exige mudança no estudo das audiências (veja também Grodin;Lindlof, 1996;Sandvoss, 2005a). Além disso, questões mais abrangentes do processo de se tornar um fã em si têm sido estudadas, incluindo a trajetória histórica de fãs de soap operas nos EUA desde o início dos anos 1900 (Ford, 2008), o surgimento e manutenção da comunidade de fãs pela internet (Baym, 2000), a explosão da fan fiction on--line (Hellekson;Busse, 2006), a integração dos fãs na grande mídia no fim do século XX e no século XXI (Gray et al, 2007).…”

Section: Estudos Sobre Fãs E Teoria Da Trajetória De Vidaunclassified

Uma perspectiva sobre fãs ao longo da trajetória de vida*

Harrington

Bielby

2016

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RESUMONeste artigo, abordamos os fãs sob a perspectiva da trajetória de vida, particularmente com ênfase na situação de ser um fã e o desenvolvimento da fase adulta. Ao mesmo tempo em que há, de forma geral, um interesse crescente pelas questões relativas à idade e ao envelhecimento nos estudos sobre fãs, existe também uma tendência na literatura de discutir o envelhecimento e a trajetória de vida de forma não teórica, deixando de lado grande parte do conhecimento acadêmico em áreas que se dedicam a entender como a vida se desdobra ao longo do tempo. Nosso objetivo aqui é tornar explícito o que normalmente é deixado implícito nos estudos sobre fãs para enriquecer nossa compreensão sobre fãs de longa data e de idade avançada, e sugerir maneiras como os estudos sobre fãs em geral poderiam tratar da questão em relação ao tempo. Palavras-chave: Estudos sobre fãs, fãs e suas práticas, trajetória de vida ABSTRACT In this article we explore a life course perspective on fandom, with particular emphasis on fandom and adult development. While there is growing interest in issues of age and aging within fan studies and within media studies more broadly, there is a tendency in this literature to discuss aging and the life course atheoretically, ignoring a rich body of scholarship in fields that examines how lives unfold over time. Our goal in this manuscript is to make explicit what is typically rendered implicit in fan studies to enrich our understanding of long-term and later-life fandom, and to suggest ways that fan studies might more fully account for fandom over time.

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“…Studies that look at characterrole play accounts in social media provide one example Hickman, 2013a, 2013b;Booth, 2008). In Bore and Hickman's (2013a) study of fan tweeting as characters, for instance, the authors note how: "Our analysis of the Twitter data and the interview data provided us with two different sets of voices; the constructed Twitter voices of the characters and the e-mail voices of the fans behind the Twitter accounts.…”

Section: Fansmentioning

confidence: 99%