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

by Nancy K. Baym

Book Overview

Nancy K. Baym′s Tune In, Log On is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book show how verbal and nonverbal 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...

• 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"