TY - JOUR
T1 - Television fiction and online communities
AU - Lacalle, Charo
AU - Simelio, Núria
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is part of a larger investigation project entitled “Social Construction of Women in the television fiction and web 2.0: Stereotypes, reception and feedback” [grant number FEM2012-33411], funded by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Government of Spain).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 National Communication Association.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - This article analyzes the feeling of communities of female social viewers who watch television fiction and participate in social networks and forums dedicated to the programs. The sample is made up of 7,849 comments from 157 platforms (49 Facebook pages, 71 Twitter accounts, and 37 forums). We describe the characteristics of these communities of fans, which differ significantly from cult fandoms and are based on ICT interweaving between reception and female viewers’ daily lives. The results reveal that these active online poster and lurker communities express themselves through their emotional ties with the television series, self-reflection, and the manifestation of intimacy. Identification with the group is based on the relationship of the storylines with their own lives, with no attempts at constructing a cultural or political identity.
AB - This article analyzes the feeling of communities of female social viewers who watch television fiction and participate in social networks and forums dedicated to the programs. The sample is made up of 7,849 comments from 157 platforms (49 Facebook pages, 71 Twitter accounts, and 37 forums). We describe the characteristics of these communities of fans, which differ significantly from cult fandoms and are based on ICT interweaving between reception and female viewers’ daily lives. The results reveal that these active online poster and lurker communities express themselves through their emotional ties with the television series, self-reflection, and the manifestation of intimacy. Identification with the group is based on the relationship of the storylines with their own lives, with no attempts at constructing a cultural or political identity.
KW - Television
KW - audiences
KW - female identities
KW - internet
KW - online communities
KW - social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027878979&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15295036.2017.1358820
DO - 10.1080/15295036.2017.1358820
M3 - Article
SN - 1529-5036
VL - 34
SP - 449
EP - 463
JO - Critical Studies in Media Communication
JF - Critical Studies in Media Communication
IS - 5
ER -