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 | | Cyberspaces Of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Digital Formations, V. 25) by Rhiannon Bury ISBN-10: 9780820471181 ISBN-10: 0-8204-7118-6 ISBN-13: 9780820471181 ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7118-1 Paperback 2005-04 Morehouse Publishing Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X- Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it. | ||
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Insightful and entertaining This is an excellent view into two groups of women who met up online and formed a new type of society. Dr. Bury puts the study of these groups into a wider context by exploring the historical and sociological implications. I don't always agree with the authorities she quotes, but I find their viewpoints interesting, and the discussions between the women in the groups are humorous and stimulating. | ||