Buffy and Angel conquer the Internet : essays on online fandom /
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer transcended its cult-comic roots to achieve television success, spawning the spinoff series Angel and an academic movement along the way. This scholarly treatment takes a multidisciplinary approach to Buffy's fandom. Ten essays analyze the sociology and psychology...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Fandoms as communities. I've got a little list, or, "You guys wanna team up and take over Sunnydale U?" / Elizabeth L. Rambo
- Buffy, Angel, and the creation of virtual communities / Mary Kirby-Diaz
- Sociological perspectives on fandoms. RL on LJ : fandom and the presentation of self in online life / Rebecca Bley
- So, what's the story? Story-oriented and series-oriented fans : a complex of behaviors / Mary Kirby-Diaz
- The Bronze Age : 1997-2001. "In the world, but not of it" : an ethnographic analysis of an online Buffy the vampire slayer fan community / Asim Ali
- Community, language, and postmodernism at the mouth of hell / Asim Ali
- Participatory communities and the production of culture. "Fake it till you make it" : understanding media addiction and Buffy the vampire slayer / David Kociemba
- The problematic definition of "fan" : a survey of fannish involvement in the Buffyverse / Claudia Rebaza
- "Easy to associate angsty lyrics with Buffy" : an introduction to a participatory fan culture : Buffy the vampire slayer vidders, popular music and the Internet / Kathryn Hill.