Digital Fandom: New Media Studies

by Paul Booth

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 .
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433110709
• ISBN13: 9781433110702
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"