Communication, interpretation, and relationship: A study of a computer-mediated fan community
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description: "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."
abstract: "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."
author: Baym, Nancy Kirsten
language: eng
keywords: Speech Communication, Mass Communication, Computer Science
date published: 2011-05-07T11:54:17Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:12Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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