Digital participatory culture and the TV audience : everyone's a critic /: everyone's a critic. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandra M. Falero.
• Authors: Falero, Sandra M
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Tables; Introduction: Democratizing Criticism; The Collision of Old and New Media Forms; Notes ; Chapter 1: "Meet Market": The Attraction of a Place Without Pity; The Birth of Television Without Pity; Key Aspects of the Site's Design; The Moderator's Heavy Hand; Independence from the Networks; Studying Television Without Pity; Conclusion; Chapter 2: "The Industry": A Brief History of Audiences In and Out of Control; The Epistolary Novel, Psychological Identification, and the Emergence of Human Rights The Fear of the Active Audience: Theater and Public Performance in the Nineteenth Century The Fear of the Passive Audience: Film Audiences; Film Audiences and the Hays Code; The Boob in Front of the Tube: Television Audiences; Violent Media and the Moral Panic of the 1990s; Conclusion; Chapter 3: "Give Pete a Line": Participatory Television and the TWoP Community; A Direct Line to the "Powers That Be"; The Smallville Message Boards; Collective Intelligence; Personal Connections; Conclusion; Chapter 4: "Sorkin Situations": The Television Auteur Meets the Digital Age Who's in Charge Here? The Role of the Author in Western Art and Philosophy; Copyright and Authorship; The Television Auteur; The Sorkin Debacle and Authorial Control; The Internet and the Democratization of Criticism; Conclusion; Chapter 5: "Shows You Hate (But Watch Anyway)": The Dark Side of Online Criticism; The New Media Landscape; Real World Anti-fans Meet The Real World Cast; "Fan-tagonism" and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Boards; Conclusion; Chapter 6: "Network Interference": Policing Conversation and Political Discourse; Politics on the Internet; Rules for Polite Behavior When the Talk Turns to Politics The "TV Potluck" Boards; Unasked Questions; Conclusion; Chapter 7: "Permanent Hiatus": The Death of Television Without Pity; The Bravo Deal; NBCUniversal's Changes; Pulling the Plug; Rebirth at Previously.tv and the New Internet; Conclusion; Conclusion; Learning from Television Without Pity; Limitations of the Study; Appendix; Survey and Interview Questions; Interviewee Statistics; List of Message Boards Visited Most Frequently for the Study, 2000-2010; Television Without Pity Site-wide Statistics; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiv, 191 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4833; Information technology -- Social aspects; Television viewers -- Attitudes; Online social networks; Popular culture; Social media; Motion pictures and television; Ethnography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Information technology -- Social aspects; Online social networks; Popular culture; Television viewers -- Attitudes; Performing Arts -- General; Social Science -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Library & Information Science -- General; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Film, TV & radio; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies; USA; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137500007; 1137499990; 9781137499998
• Related ISBNs: 113750000X; 9781137499998
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 18, 2016)
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