Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community

by Nancy K. Baym

Book Overview

Tune In, Log Out

is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humor, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity. While much has been written about problems and inequities women have encountered online,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761916482
• ISBN13: 9780761916482
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"