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Millennial Fandom
Louisa Ellen Stein
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Description for Millennial Fandom
Paperback. Traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology, Ellen Stein demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations, and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives. Num Pages: 222 pages, 15 black & white images. BIC Classification: AP; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 525.
No longer has a niche or cult identity, fandom now coloured our notions of an expansive generational construct— the millennial generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities to intervene, control, and create. At the same time, longstanding fears about fans’ cultural unruliness manifest in rampant stories of millennials’ technological overdependence and lack of moral boundaries.
These conflicting narratives of entrepreneurial creativity and digital immorality operate to quell the growing threat represented by millennials’ media agency. With fan activities becoming ever more visible on social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, ... Read more
No longer has a niche or cult identity, fandom now coloured our notions of an expansive generational construct— the millennial generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities to intervene, control, and create. At the same time, longstanding fears about fans’ cultural unruliness manifest in rampant stories of millennials’ technological overdependence and lack of moral boundaries.
These conflicting narratives of entrepreneurial creativity and digital immorality operate to quell the growing threat represented by millennials’ media agency. With fan activities becoming ever more visible on social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609383558
SKU
V9781609383558
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About Louisa Ellen Stein
Louisa Ellen Stein is an assistant professor at Middlebury College. The book review editor for both Cinema Journal and Transformative Works and Cultures, she also coedited the essay collections Teen Television and Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom. Her research interests include the media literacies at work in fandom, gender, and generational influences in media culture, and transmedia technology. She ... Read more
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