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      <mods:title>Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities</mods:title>
     </mods:titleInfo>
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      <mods:namePart>Russo, Julie L.</mods:namePart>
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       <mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm>
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      <mods:copyrightDate>2010</mods:copyrightDate>
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     <mods:physicalDescription>
      <mods:extent>v, 284 p.</mods:extent>
      <mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
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     <mods:note>Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)</mods:note>
     <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Joyrich, Lynne</mods:namePart>
      <mods:role>
       <mods:roleTerm type="text">director</mods:roleTerm>
      </mods:role>
     </mods:name>
     <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Chun, Wendy</mods:namePart>
      <mods:role>
       <mods:roleTerm type="text">reader</mods:roleTerm>
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     </mods:name>
     <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Rosen, Philip</mods:namePart>
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      <mods:namePart>Brown University. Modern Culture and Media</mods:namePart>
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     <mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre>
     <mods: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 &amp; 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.</mods:abstract>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>fandom</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>fan fiction</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>new media</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>media</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Marxism</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>online communities</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>television studies</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>The L Word</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Battlestar Galactica</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Law and Order</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>queer</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>networks</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>fan studies</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>media industry</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
     <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>the closet</mods:topic>
     </mods:subject>
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    <mods:language><mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm><mods:languageTerm type="text">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:identifier type="doi">10.7301/Z07M066M</mods:identifier><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">dissertations</mods:typeOfResource></mods:mods>