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."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Baym, Nancy Kirsten

Contributors dc:contributor

• Miller, Peggy J.

• Speech Communication
• Mass Communication
• Computer Science

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Baym, Nancy Kirsten

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9512297
(UMI)AAI9512297

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19011