Dale Weber
The rise of the internet has brought about many social changes, including the ability to bring people together, albeit in a virtual setting. With many of the old challenges related to space and time becoming obsolete in an increasingly online society, people from all over the world are now able to share information and ideas with anyone, at anytime. This includes bringing together creators of texts and their audiences. This article seeks to show how there is an increasingly blurring of the previously distinct line between media producers and those who consume their texts. Through various case studies this article will explore how there have been examples of how online fan communities have influenced, changed or added to the world of certain media texts; and how the creators of these texts have responded. There will be voices in support as well as those who oppose this coming together of producer and audience, but this article will show how the sharing of creative ideas is becoming a much more democratic and worldwide system.
Keywords:
Digital media, Online Publishing, Online community, Fandom, Fans, Producers, Audience
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Showing posts with label online communities. Show all posts
Oct 28, 2010
The Easy Way Out: Why Blogs Become Books and Beyond
Lilia Kanna
This article will be looking at the shift in the origins of ideas behind book publishing, and how book publishers are seeking out possible titles that already have an established fan base. This article will specifically address the newfound source of possible book material – internet blogs – and compare this to the original publishing practice of signing on authors and written texts and taking a risk. The process of taking an already successful blog and turning it into a book has only recently developed with the growing popularity of blogging. In a move by book publishers to gain some of the lost market share that bloggers have taken, they have chosen to incorporate many well-known internet blogs into books. Examples of this include Post Secret, Overheard in New York, Belle De Jour: The Adventures of a London Call-Girl and Baghdad Burning. This growing phenomenon has also been granted its own prize; The Blooker Award – celebrating this new hybrid. This article will continue to concentrate on the newfound blogs-becoming-books phase by assessing their success in the book market, and their adaptation into media markets other than books. This article aims to discover if the readership is a large proportion of existing blog readers or new readers, and how this affects the existing blog.
This article will be looking at the shift in the origins of ideas behind book publishing, and how book publishers are seeking out possible titles that already have an established fan base. This article will specifically address the newfound source of possible book material – internet blogs – and compare this to the original publishing practice of signing on authors and written texts and taking a risk. The process of taking an already successful blog and turning it into a book has only recently developed with the growing popularity of blogging. In a move by book publishers to gain some of the lost market share that bloggers have taken, they have chosen to incorporate many well-known internet blogs into books. Examples of this include Post Secret, Overheard in New York, Belle De Jour: The Adventures of a London Call-Girl and Baghdad Burning. This growing phenomenon has also been granted its own prize; The Blooker Award – celebrating this new hybrid. This article will continue to concentrate on the newfound blogs-becoming-books phase by assessing their success in the book market, and their adaptation into media markets other than books. This article aims to discover if the readership is a large proportion of existing blog readers or new readers, and how this affects the existing blog.
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