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Interactivity And The ‘Cyber-Fan’: An Exploration Of Audience Involvement Within The Electronic Fan Culture Of The Internet, Victor Costello
Interactivity And The ‘Cyber-Fan’: An Exploration Of Audience Involvement Within The Electronic Fan Culture Of The Internet, Victor Costello
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This study investigates the relatively new uses of the Internet by television fans for keeping up with their favorite television programs and for interacting with other fans through on-line channels of interpersonal communication. A distinction is made between traditional television fans and a newly emerging segment of the fan population that routinely uses the Internet to supplement the viewing of their favorite television program. The name cyber-fan is used to describe this savvy and innovative member of television fandom.
The study was designed within a uses and gratifications framework in an effort to specifically observe the behavior of cyber-fans within …