Millennial Fandom : Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age / Louisa Ellen Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Louisa Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generation Y.

Fans (Persons)--Social aspects.

Fans (Persons).

Television viewers--Social aspects.

Television viewers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, [Iowa] : University of Iowa Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No longer a niche or cult identity, fandom now colors 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, long-standing fears about fans' cultural unruliness manifest in rampant stories of millennials' technological over-dependence 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, LiveJournal, Twitter, Polyvore, and Tumblr, the fan has become the avatar of our digital hopes and fears.In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like Kyle XY, Glee, Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, and Pretty Little Liars and online works like The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations, and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives.This generation-and the fans it represents-is actively transforming the media landscape into a dynamic, culturally transgressive space of collective authorship. Offering a rich and complex vision of the relationship between fandom and millennial culture, Millennial Fandom will interest fans, millennials, students, and scholars of contemporary media culture alike.

Contents:

Introduction

Millennial hope. Glee and the hopeful collective

Destabilizing the millennial collective

Niche meets mainstream: from fandom to gleekdom

Millennial noir. Mapping and marketing millennial noir

The attack of the filles fatales

Millennial noir: an invitation to transgress

Millennial tansformation. Misha Collins and the power of decentered authorship

Collective authorship and the culture of feels

Conclusion: calling all fandoms.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609383565

1609383567

OCLC:

917853698