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Fallout fans: Negotiations over text integrity in the age of the active audience
dc.contributor.advisor | Baym, Nancy | |
dc.contributor.author | Milner, Ryan M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-09-08 | |
dc.date.available | 2008-09-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-07-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2515 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4126 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated how fans and producers of media texts negotiate text integrity, which is defined as an ideal about the validity, wholeness, and truth of the text. An evaluation of previous research in fan studies revealed four essential issues underlying fan-producer interaction. These four issues led to the study's four research questions, which centered on fan perceptions of ownership of a text, construction of status-relationship between fans and producers, construction of status-relationship among fans, and how fans envisioned their labor contribution to the game development process. Research questions were addressed using a discourse analysis of the forum interactions of fans of the digital-game series Fallout. The investigation focused on fan and producer interaction surrounding the release of the controversial next installment in the Fallout series, Fallout 3. Using previous literature and data gathered, the study proposed a model for fan-producer negotiation over text integrity that can be applied to fan-producer interaction in multiple contexts. | |
dc.format.extent | 145 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Speech communication | |
dc.subject | Fandom | |
dc.subject | Fans | |
dc.subject | Producers | |
dc.subject | Digital gaming | |
dc.subject | Labor | |
dc.title | Fallout fans: Negotiations over text integrity in the age of the active audience | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Russo, Tracy | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Zhang, Yan Bing | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Communication Studies | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 6857306 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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