Communication, interpretation, and relationship: A study of a computer-mediated fan community
"This dissertation focuses on the creation of community in a computer-mediated Usenet newsgroup called ""rec.arts.tv.soaps"" (r.a.t.s.) which discusses soap operas. In newsgroups, communicative practice is the participants' primarily tool for creating social meanings. My central question is how participants create group coherence in this terrain with neither places nor faces."
Speech Communication, Mass Communication, Computer Science
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign