Television, social media, and fan culture / edited by Alison F. Slade, Amber J. Narro, and Dedria Givens-Carroll ; contributors, Benjamin Brojakowski [and thirty-two others].

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Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The contributors explore a diverse array of television personalities, shows, media outlets, and fan activities in their analysis, including: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Paula Deen; Community, Game of Thrones, Duck Dynasty, Toddlers and Tiaras, Talking Dead, Breaking Bad, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army Wives, The Newsroom, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; as well as ESPN's TrueHoop Network and Yahoo's Ball Don't Lie; and cosplay.

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CHOICE Review

Comprising essays written by faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars, this collection reflects the current trend in fan studies to use fan practices to examine everyday life in a mediated age (as distinguished from using them to examine different fan communities). It is debatable whether the term "fan culture" holds any meaning at this stage of academic examination. As the practices that made the subculture distinct have been absorbed into the mainstream or died off, "fan" is becoming a generic term: a viewer who does anything more than view is a fan. Whereas most of the contributors frame their analyses within traditional fan communities formed through shared affinity for a specific television text, the focus of the book as a whole is on the interaction of social media and the medium of television--that is, how social media are used by fans to view and create content and by producers to market their content and monetize viewer engagement. Television programs and genres discussed include Game of Thrones, Dr. Who, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Duck Dynasty, Tiaras and Toddlers, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, soap operas, and sports. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. --Susan Clerc, Southern Connecticut State University