- Title Information
- Title
- Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Russo, Julie L.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- Extent
- v, 284 p.
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Note
- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Joyrich, Lynne
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- director
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Chun, Wendy
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Rosen, Philip
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media
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- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user
participation, that are transforming the relationship between media producers and consumers. The author analyzes the tensions emerging at the crossroads of television and the internet by
taking queer female labor in the guise of online fan discussion, fiction, music videos, and community-building as an artifact that is exemplary of this formation. Her research is oriented to
queer fan practices for both theoretical and historical reasons: convergence is concerned with queer dynamics like managing categories and transgressing boundaries; and more concretely her
approach to such social, economic, legal, and ideological negotiations through the lens of fandom comes at a time when the media industry is itself reorienting to privilege fan engagement.
Thus, along with broadening the scope of fan studies, this work intervenes in the disciplines of television and internet studies more generally through a unique critical theoretical
perspective, constructing a framework drawn from media theory, queer theory, Marxist theory, and cultural studies. The core of the dissertation consists of three case studies of lesbian fan
activity around the television programs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Battlestar Galactica, and The L Word, with particular attention to three intertwined registers: the screen
texts still defined as television episodes; the transmedia texts that include online tie-ins, promotions, and gossip; and the fan texts produced by interpretive communities. These evaluations
allow the author to explore disputes over politics of representation (figured by the closet), technologies of reproduction (figured by the hybrid), and commodification of identity (figured by
the worker), positioning fan economies as a contested axis of immaterial labor in late capitalism. Mapping the queer interventions generated by a predominantly female fan subculture, this
project argues that the technologies, discourses, and subjectivities of convergence pose structural challenges to systems of ownership, circulation, and value that corporate media are
struggling to reincorporate. Scrutinizing the increasingly intermediated configuration of television and the internet is essential to understanding these and other antagonisms shaping media
evolution today.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- fandom
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- fan fiction
- Subject (Local)
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- new media
- Subject (Local)
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- media
- Subject (Local)
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- Marxism
- Subject (Local)
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- online communities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- television studies
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- The L Word
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Battlestar Galactica
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Law and Order
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- queer
- Subject (Local)
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- networks
- Subject (Local)
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- fan studies
- Subject (Local)
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- media industry
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- the closet
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/877195")
- Topic
- Convergence
- Subject (FAST)
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- Media studies
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/893716")
- Topic
- Digital media
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870421")
- Topic
- Communism
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/977184")
- Topic
- Internet
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1146535")
- Topic
- Television
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1920460")
- Topic
- Battlestar Galactica television programs
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1380770")
- Topic
- Law & order (Television program)
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1739572")
- Topic
- Queer theory
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540")
- Topic
- Lesbians
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/989798")
- Topic
- Labor
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1071344")
- Topic
- Popular culture
- Record Information
- Record Content Source (marcorg)
- RPB
- Record Creation Date
(encoding="iso8601")
- 20100113
- Language
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Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Language Term:
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z07M066M
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- dissertations